2008… was there.
The rain was coming down so hard, it would hit the concrete and bounce back up! Was working the event, and spent most of the day sheltered under the wing of my jet.
Felt really sorry for the RAF Parade.
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A makeshift solution has been found.
It’s not ideal, but a bunker with some heaters and dehumidifiers is better than nothing.
(It’s at least vaguely warm and less humid than tents).
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If that was the year I remember it was all the also the year that the Bisley imperial was absolutely monsooned with camp sites flooding (inns of court was under water to the depth of a tent)
Century range was so badly flooded that someone was able to kayack up & down between the targets & the 100 yard firing point.
I was there as a cadet, loved it since they never opened it to the public due to the muddy car parks and the cadets got a private airshow!
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There have been a few tbh.
2008 comes to mind simply because that was the year it was cancelled.
2012 was also a wet one, statistically a wetter year based on rainfall but having learnt from 2008 the show went ahead.
There have been other years which were wet on camp but not so memorable. Since moving to site 15 (from the sports field) a muddy camp hasn’t been an issue despite bring wet enough in 2018 to cancel the RAF100 flypast
2013 was one of the hottest years i remember although 2022 would have been the hottest in my time
Today could be interesting. Yellow warning in place for Strong Winds and continuous rain forecast all day
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I do think we need to sort this out. Our blues uniform is office wear. It isn’t suitable for this.
The Jeltex is not FFP for anything more than walking from the station or bus stop to squadron HQ.
We have permitted orders of dress for outdoors, albeit as private purchase. Or allow civilian clothes.
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~150 pers from the wing visited today, despite some coach issues very successful and plenty of flying and happy faces at the end of the day.
A few months to think about if we repeat for 2024, but will likely sort tickets to allow a Departure Day minibus trip.
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Latest incident stats, power crazy staff, cadets…being cadets, CAC not being on camp site, HRH PoW not saying hello to everyone…any news!?
He stayed on camp and was on site and engaging with cadets, have seen photo evidence from my cadet on camp.
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He’s in a VW camper on site I’m told.
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He was there did Fri & Sat but departed Sat evening - so won’t be there today (Sun). Yes, he was in a camper van.
Wonder if it’s the one owned by the SNP 
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As you know, I try to make it my business to never be fair to CAC’s (or whatever the obsequious are calling him this week), but a VSO parachuting themselves into an operationcan be quite unsettling for those trying to conduct that operation, and it can have negative effects because everyone is spending their time concentrating on the VSO, not the operation.
It depends very much on the VSO and the relationship they form with their subordinates and the way their subordinates see them - and it’s a very wise VSO who knows that if people aren’t going to be very comfortable seeing said VSO in their trollies, or with said VSO over-hearing the usual bitching and honking off, it’s going to have a negative impact and therefore not doing much more than a grip-and-grin visit.
I had overnight visits in Afghanistan from Ivan Jones, Patrick Sanders, MCS - among others - who were just golden with everyone immediately at their ease stealing fags and honking off, with them just fitting right in.
But Carter, Shiriff, and one or two others? It was awful.
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Overall a pretty good event. Some of the flying was really impressive. Better than I remember from previous years. The weather was ‘interesting’.
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That’s one way to put it!
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Doesn’t “contribution towards a business” exclude us as we are not a business? Perhaps this is relevant to DofE as some participants may volunteer for local businesses and therefore may be considered to be working.
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Anyone got any more info on the bomb squad incident? 
