Getting them there/back!
Yes, but this is how the logic can be picked apart. CFAV shouldnât be alone in a car with cadets and cadets must be in the back seat⌠but we can put a pilot alone with a cadet side by side.
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As much as I agree, Iâm going to avoid asking the question in case the answer is âyouâre right, we canât possibly have a pilot 1:1 with a cadet, better stop thatâ /hj
If you want this stuff to go awayâŚ.
How much does the cadet bit of AEF cost, and how much does the gliding structure cost? Be funny if an MP/minister asked CAS why MOD was splashing cash on a flying capability that could no longer be used because a fairly junior CS had rewritten a CP policy without thinking about it properlyâŚ
If you want to survive, learn politics.
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Funnily enough, a regular friend of mine was on the exec shadow board when this came up. I canât remember the figure, but it was in the millions and the shadow board wanted to spend it bringing accommodation up to standard instead.
Fortunately, the actual exec board is more future-focused (not that accommodation doesnât desperately need sorting!)
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It is a valid question.
Though we canât run the organisation based on cost alone, flying is clearly the most expensive activity. I think there was another thread on flying, but does it bring sufficient value?
Iâd wager the impact on whether or not someone succeeds in joining up as an RAF pilot doesnât hang in whether they did an AEF sortie in a Tutor.
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Personally, it had no impact on me: I did whatever the gliding thing was where you went to a VGS for 10 days and sent solo - it only told me I had no interest in being a pilot - the big pusher was AT, station camps, and flying on service aircraft like the C-130âs, Chinooks and Gazelles.
It was being in the Mil that was interesting and exciting for me, the individual flying was entirely mehâŚ
My point was that one CS, with the acquiescence of HQAC have negated all that spend as surely as if theyâd taken a petrol bomb to a shipping container full of fiftiesâŚ.
However, there is no exemption in the SCD for AEF or VGS flying. As things stand cadets cannot fly either with an instructor (who donât forget may not be a CFAV), or fly solo as the supervisory requirements are not met. The SCD isnât suspended just because a cadet is in an aircraft.
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What happens to any flight staff cadets? Are they still able to fly cadets generally? And if they can, surely they canât now.
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Iâm of the view that someone just needs to take a grip of this and say âitâs completely unworkable in its current form, we need to pull it and not persevere with the idea of âtest over summer and take feedback for amendmentsâ.
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Can we ask the person who has just written the tri-service heat illness policy to take this on as their next project?
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I wondered exactly the same thing!!!
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They probably had to actually engage with the end users. Thatâs the benefit of the SCC being a charity, not a branch of the services. We donât have to blindly take rules from the RN.
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Iâve been told itâs getting binnedâŚbut I was led to believe itâs a draft pending feedback anywayâŚ
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No sign of this here.
Weâve been told to work with it, and throw in exemption requests where necessary.
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Finally getting around to reading this⌠Iâm only on page 11 and my head is hurting.
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So from what Iâve read thus far you need both Male & Female staff on any occasion where there are both male & female cadets, this includes parade nights - but they can be âOn Callâ not that this is defined in terms of requirement.
Of 22 units in the WingâŚ
1 has no female staff at all
10 have 2 or less, leaving very little cover for absence
This is just raw numbers - at this stage Iâve not dug into the attendance records of the staff listed on Bader as attached to the units.
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My suggestion to my sector OC recently was that Sqns contact their respective RC every time they donât have female cover and theyâll soon get sick.
I also suggested in the feedback that the policy is stating female and male - there are way more genders than this on BADER - so what do we do then?
(Iâm not getting into a gender debate or pointing negativity towards the gender choices in this post, but why is a policy restricting activities based on 2 genders when on BADER, there are several. What do we do then?)
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Havenât seen the SCDâs wording, but does it refer to sex or gender?