Can a cadet ask to go on a PNCO course or will the sqn OC look at the cadets and put forward a list of people with potential
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What on earth is PNCO?
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Protenal NCO
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Guessing a pre nco course… bezt answer is speak to your boss it will be wing specific criteria
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Your wing should allow cadets on JNCO courses
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Started these in our Squadron in the 80s, CML tasks (from DIOT handbook) with logs ropes and drums plus classroom ones using LEGO and jigsaws, lecture presntations, initiative exercises (here is camera, go and photograph xy or z here is 10p for a phone call, you have six hours from now: GO), early morning log run, drill assesment. Cadets cooked for themselves as well. Cadets put in 15 to 16bhour days doing this.
Within a week report to COs of any squadron’s cadets who attended.
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There’s no set national model for PNCO courses, so it’ll depend entirely on your squadron or wing (or school) - best bet is to ask your unit staff.
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Our sqn and sector generally run them mixed with a blue leadership badge course. So learning SMEAC followed by giving drill commands. They are aimed at cadets looking to be promoted. as for corporals, they then go on to JNCO courses. If your sqn or wing run PNCO courses then yes you could but ask your sqn staff if they are running any
i have done a PNCO.
and its a warm up to the real jnco.
the PNCO does leadership tests, mult choose question to we what type of person you are and many other activities and PowerPoint to do. the course took me 14 parade night to complete this.
Briggs Myers? Seriously dislike using these with Cadets.
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Or other humans.
Evening all,
Sorry to bring up an old thread but I am keen to run a PNCO course at our unit as I have a number of cadets who I would like to develop further with dedicated training away from a parade night.
Can anyone share their thoughts/agenda or similar for any PNCO training delivered either on unit or at Wing as our Wing does not run them and I have never seen anything delivered locally.
Thanks in advance.
The NCO course syllabus.
Its always confused me why we train for the role after promotion. In the real world you get trained to do a job then you do it.
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Merging ‘NCO courses’ with Leadership is entirely sensible and what the RAF has been doing for years with J/I/A/HMLC courses (now rebranded AD 1 to 4).
Oh dear!
We do one at Sqn aimed at cadets with 18months service & leading cadet.
Base elements
Command task
Presentation skills
Drill instruction
Leadership theory
Base principles
Clean sheet approach
Inspections on each parade night
Everyone leads a command task which test a particular leadership aspect.
Presentational skills - assign a single word topic not related to air cadets to promote the need to research & avoid temptation to wing it.
Either run on a weekend (leadership & Drill focus) or across several parade nights. The later is preferable as it allows cadets to improve each week but it’s more intensive on resources
Also run it as a cadre so the trains develop from a nucleus
Year 1 - heavy staff involvement, cadet NCOs as runners & logistics
Year 2 staff involved, cdt NCOs help run, cadets from year 1 act as logs/runners
Year3 - staff teach leadership & supervise rest. Year 1 cdts act as course directing NCOs, Year 2 act as logs/runners
Year 4. Staff as course directors & quality assurance, year 1 cadets lead, year 2 run & teach course, year 3 logs/runners
Well that’s the theory anyway 
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Also our leadership theory goes a little beyond ATC
So yes command task & functional leadership, but also how the base three types of leadership overlap to produce seven.
And then one theory lesson that includes emotional intelligence, Maslow, circles of influences, & transactional analysis.
Include clips from game of thrones (Tyrion riddle) & ted lasso curious not judgmental plus other ones 
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ACTO 7 is a good basis as it gives the breakdown of roles etc and a course can easily be adapted around that. You will need a DI of some kind (not necessarily qualified) built on standards, safeguarding and leadership
It sounds like someone is working from his notes from IMLC …
Might be worth looking at ACP 40. Slightly different title but essentially the same topic