How do I add supernumerary staff to an activity? Do I have to invite their “parent” unit?
That’s how I action things for sqn local shooting events.
No, you can search for staff individually. Just use the search box and remove the default unit you’re on and search for their name. Then they’ll be invited but their unit won’t get the invite.
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Same trick to add staff cadets as staff rather than cadets, by removing one of the search filters! A trick that many people seem to miss.
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New staff cadet.
Does this mean that the age for commissioning is now 18?
• Lowering of eligibility age from 20 to 18 to be a CFAV supporting the ATC, VGS and AGS and aligning with CCF
I’m going to go with yes, albeit I’ve not seen any more information since the IBN came out. Hopefully we’ll get some updated policy as it apparently comes into force in 2 weeks time!
Anyone know what the ‘Agreements’ section in Cadet Portal is about? I’m guessing its to do with parental agreements for aircraft flying, accommodation, photography and media etc, but it just appears blank when I go on it.
Is this upcoming for when cadets will be able to read and agree to the cadet code of conduct via cadet portal?
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It’s related to the code of conduct agreement for cadets triggered by the new staff cadet changes.
hi all with the stop of car parking and marshalling is there any chance of it returning anytime soon?
Very unlikely, sadly.
Why is it QAIC graduates don’t get to wear No 1 dress for grad night opposed to JL? has it always been like this?
I think it has always been the case, but that doesn’t justify it. I always found JL wearing it to be rather silly. All that faff getting them issued, ranked and badged just to be worn once as interim mess dress for one dinner. I can understand issuing them for Lord Looey’s Cadets but not for this.
We have an interim mess dress for cadets in ACP1358 for a reason, white shirt and bow tie, working blue trousers. That’s much simpler, and a lot cheaper. I imagine though that with the “new JL” there won’t be No1s for any graduation dinner.
But if you’re choosing what courses to apply for on the basis of being issued No1s, you need to reassess priorities.
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It’s actually really low effort for JL. JL had managed to get a fair stock of jackets over the years and would hand them out to anyone who couldn’t get hold of one.
I think it makes the event look really smart, makes it a standard out moment for the cadets. And doesn’t look like a boxing referee convention, the Grad dinner was the culmination of 6 months of hard work and commitment. Being allowed to dress up, and look smart for it was a big part of the whole affair.
Emphasis on WAS.
I personally never understood why QAIC didn’t do it, considering they don’t give a damn about wearing flying suits everywhere for no apparent reason.
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I do also consider this quite silly to be honest, given it’s a ground course…
But on the whole I’m of the opinion that we either issue No1s as standard akin to the SCC - but that’ll never happen due to the cost - or we keep it just to LLCs. I was never an LLC, but having worn No1s as a CFAV I’m happy to admit that they ain’t all that. Rather uncomfy if anything.
I can get the appeal they have to the youngsters, much like with UBACS they want to look smart and “cool”, but they are dramatically overrated.
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The big difference with issued no1s is they’re issued as a set, the trousers and jackets are made together.
Handing out jackets to wear with No.2 trousers is pretty straightforward, they’re all second (or probably more) hand, and it’s amazing how many squadrons could kit out their cadets in a No1 jacket without needing to use the JL stock.
And yeah, the appeal was for the cadets. Because it was their course, their graduation, their achievement. It deserved the recognition.
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QAIC does itself and its graduates no favours with all this flying suit and call signs nonsense.
It’s the waltiest thing ever and the fact no one has slapped it around the metaphorical chops for undermining its own credibility is a real shame.
By all accounts it’s an incredibly difficult course and anyone who makes it through should be very proud, but they need to send them away able to teach that bronze AGS syllabus badge and drop all this “QAI Beyblade” rubbish. Anyone who reads that will take a moment to understand it because it doesn’t mean anything, then several being violently sick.
Rant over.
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A friend was telling me how confusing the QAIs were to members of the public at a recruitment/engagement thing. Because they were dressed as pilots. And then noone could grasp why they were dressed as pilots, when none of them were pilots.
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Tim Davies had a great moment on the Mover and Gonky show when they asked him why the RAF don’t have call signs and what do they have they on their name badges, “mine had Tim Davies on it, because that’s my name …”
Edit: the irony of this being posted by someone who is primarily known by a nickname doesn’t escape me.
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Certainly wouldn’t base a choice on either or over the no1s but I do think it’s rather silly that one wears mess dress and the other wears no1s surely they would do the same for both?! No1s look nice but surely it can’t be practical for a single night!?