All I’m saying is, that by going half the journey, one can only give half the experience.
I’ll raise one point about a “gunny” course. When I passed my SR and SAAI courses I was inexperienced. I needed to run ranges and gain confidence and competence before considering an LR course. This takes several weekends. Likewise with SAAI I’m still improving and my first few courses were a learning experiences.
After a course of X amount of days one could then be fully qualified to run SR+LR and be a SAAI. Where’s the time for consolidation of skills? I feel we’d get greater skill fade from a “gunny” course than the current modular system.
On the point of students from the outer reaches having issues getting to courses. My solution is that the CTT still travel around the UK so they’d be available to S&NI.
This is likely to result in a planet destroying black hole of incalculable mass…[/quote]
Perry, you just caused me to spit coffee over my screen again.
:evil:
All part of the friendly service! :whistle:
Not a bad idea at all.
I’ve often wondered why the ACO hasn’t just bitten the bullet (no pun intended) and created 1 or 2-week long RCO or WI courses which will give them the job lot of range and wpn trg quals in one go. What we have at present is a patchwork quilt of dipping in and out which results in CFAV’s only getting a SR qual or only entitled to teach the No.8.
Do it all at once and be done with it![/quote]
Back in the day when i was half my current age I did an RCO course.
It was run by the RAF regt at the Ground defence school at RAF St Athan.
It was a week long
you walked away with .22, full bore barrack and long range ticket.
One of the best courses I have done in the ATC
then the ATC decided to do it in house and then we ended up with the current [strike]mess[/strike] situation.