Which would be great if we had enough specialists, but in reality most are generalists.
I’m also not so keen on the idea of centralising too much, Regions are very big geographical areas. I see a very real difference in staff interest when I offer something local to when I offer a Regional Course.
If you put all of your eggs at a Region Level who is co-ordinating and developing local activities and staff? I would say half my time is spent on staff development which ranges from just selling the idea of courses to people down to showing them how to fill in a DLOG.
I think that over time you would end up just adding more primary post holders as Wings would see a need for a WATTO anyway. (Unless they lost deadwood and then they might not notice any difference!)
I would tend to agree with this as well. The ‘hard to do locally’ stuff needs to be centralised (i.e. the few course director led qualifications where resources aren’t available to deliver that locally all the time). This is a halfway compromise - it’s closer than everyone travelling to Fairbourne or Windermere but equally it’s also not in your own Wing footprint. The ‘better to do locally’ stuff is those activities that put people on the pathway to getting qualified - CFAV development training etc - that can be run with the qualifications a Wing holds. So there is a place for both.
What if, however, you have run 6 courses for staff, and those X trained staff have run X courses for cadets, which without you running the staff course couldn’t be done.
I know many more CFAVs who’d rather sit in a nice warm office writing JIs than sit on the side of Snowdon for 3 hours in a group shelter in persistent rain waiting for a group
