This should probably ssy enough on its own. Yes I’m CCF, but that doesn’t mean it was different. I saw pictures and posts from SCCs going and doing flying, and gettingn all their cadets experiences (back of Merlins, etc etc.) I got one sortie in. In 5 years. I will be entirely fair, 2 of those were Covid. But it is, quite frankly, gutting to watch other cadets going through the system and seeing them getting no sorties in 2 to 3 years.
I must admit, when I saw the ACPS video announcement on the Air Cadets Instagram, I thought it was a whole pile of rubbish. You can barely get cadets in the air once every 2/3 years, how the heck are you thinking you can manage to get people to solo standard? Are they going to take flying slots away from the rest of the ATC/CCF? How are they able to evaluate who deserves spots on ACPS or not? (because unless you’re doing time with civvie pilots or you’ve games the system, I cannot see how many if any cadets have more than 2 or 3 sorties in the bag)
As for the carparking shabang, while i’ve never done it with Air Cadets, it’s not as if you’re getting unqualified cadets to drive the cars themselves? Every car park known to man states in clear signage “any damage to your car while parking is your liability (etc etc.)” - surely it’s a job of cadets pointing vaguely where there’s a reasonable space, being out the way, and job jobbed? I do not understand how we’ve managed to make that needlessly complex and “dangerous”?