Had this earlier. Anyone know why?
[Quote=“OC RAF CGS”]All,
With immediate effect cameras, camera phones & video cameras and all other recording devices etc are not be used in VGS aircraft. Mobile phones may be carried for safety purposes but are to remain switched off.
I will hold VGS commanders personally responsible for any photographs taken at their unit that subsequently appear on social media sites such as ‘facebook’.
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Not a sausage… as usual it would be nice to have an explanation for such orders.
How odd…
Has somebody been caught doing something naughty on social media sites such as “facebook”… quick… to the Batfink search!
I came to the same conclusion!
A photograph… of a cadet… enjoying a core cadet activity?!
Heresy!!
It was mentioned in the email that VGS COs would be held responsible for anything that showed up on social media sites.
What naughtiness could one get up to in a Vigilant, and which could also be caught on camera?
I’d be genuinely interested to know what the big deal is? Obviously someone thinks it serious enough to make silly threats about holding VGS COs “personally responsible”…
SO does this mean that full body scanners will be in use at all VGS’s …
Over excited vigi driver who thinks he’s remaking top gun in doing something stupid shock perhaps?
Brilliant news though, good job already have stock I ages of little cadet Johnny or Jane enjoying their glider experience to use as part of highlighting the uniqueness of the activity provided.
Zzzz - perhaps we should all give up and go home?
my first thoughts were due to a “FOD” issue, dropped camera during a manoeuvre leading to dangers.
OC of unit investigates and finds Cadet wanted to show his mates what he got up to on the weekend by putting a photo on Facebook…?
seems a bit of a knee jerk reaction (are we surprised?) to what seems common place when i consider the number of photos i have seen in cockpits, i recall seeing one YouTube video by a Cadet as thie pilot landing a Vigi somewhere…
FOD would be the obvious first call, but the wording of the article seems to suggest that it’s probably not the issue.
Phones are still permitted to be carried, but they must be switched off.
Commanders will be held personally responsible for for videos that appear on the web; rather than being held responsible for potentioal FOD being taken into aircraft.
The endertone definitely seems to be that it’s the recording of images or video in the aircraft they want to prevent.
What a load of ****.
With this and the current ammunition farce and the Tutor fiasco, it seems that we’re either not allowed to do anything fun any more, or if we are, not to tell anyone else about it!
Surely with the chronic lack of staff and declining numbers of cadets in may areas, the ACO should be doing all they can to “get the word out” that we’re here and able to offer things that many people wouldn’t otherwise get the chance to do?
:mad:
a selection of Senior Officers have said “the ACO is the best kept secret in youth organisations” - this it would seem to to only secure that notion rather than promote it.
wdimagineer2b - i have to agree, the wording indicates recording devices rather than FOD, but what security breech could occur from taking a photo/recording from inside a Vigi cockpit?? (short of over flying something that shouldnt be!)
Perhaps they are scared that a cadet will publish video evidence of poor airmanship or shoddy procedures. If that is the case, let them publish and sort out the root cause instead.
At at VGS? NEVER! 
Interesting rumours doing the rounds about what was filmed during a sortie!!
VGSLAD
First one to find the video wins an ACC sponsored prize?
Exactly!
Although, there are plenty of people around who regularly misunderstand what actually consitutes a security risk. I’ve seen a few senior officers (at various levels) get their knickers in a twist over some percieved “security problem” in what were actually total non-issues.
It would be nice if those people who know ■■■■■■ all about security left such conerns to those people who actually undertand them.
I hope something more descriptive is released. I really would be interested to know what the problem is behind all this. I find it hard to believe it’s a genuine issue.
Out of interest is there anywhere for us to read this information first hand or should I go off to the communications survey thread to question why some people have it, and the rest of us find out via those kind enough to post it on an unofficial and oft-questioned public forum?