It doesn’t. It stands for Air Cadets Paused!
It was never about the money for me.
What’s got my back up is the fact that we are now at a point, in this diminishing organisation, were one person can wake up and think, “That activity seems a little bit risky to me, I’d better pop into the office and ban it.”
No proper assessment, no consultation…just ban it.
Gone in the blink of an eye and the click of the fingers. Never coming back. That easy.
I will be less frustrated and critical when somebody in the senior management wakes up one day and, instead of adding to the banned list, does something tangible that will result in the return of the following;
- Parachuting
- Motor Gliders
- Air Cadet Pilot Navigation Training Scheme
- Air Cadet AEF Course
- Air Operations Acquaintance Center
- AEF progression through sorties 1-6
- Regional Aerospace Courses
- BTEC in Aerospace Studies
- Sir Michael Knight pilot scholarship
- Crab football
- Paragliding
- The LSW
- Outdoors drone flying
- Aircraft recognition
- Nitex at local country park.
- Assault courses
- Microflight flying
- Popular Flying Association Rallies - where cadets could get seriously close to aircraft by marshalling on the taxiways.
- Staff drinking post activity
- VA
- Car marshalling
P.S. Don’t shoot the message with the above list, it was taken from It's Not What It Used To Be (Lost Activities)