Ahh I look back fondly on my King Air flight about 10/11 years ago as a Pilot Officer on camp at Cranwell…
Those plus leather seats in the back, the best sleep I had all camp…
Sorted. Tutors flying again this morning. 
To be back on line by Weds - maybe…[/quote]
One day early - but within quoted timescale! 
To be back on line by Weds - maybe…[/quote]
One day early - but within quoted timescale! ;-)[/quote]
Strictly speaking they were airworthy Friday afternoon, but we’d all stacked and hit the bar by then!
Relating to the pax flights…
Many moons ago there was rumblings that certain airlines (I cannot recall which ones) were flying empty a/c into LHR just to keep their landing slots. It was mooted then that maybe an approach could be made to these companies to provide AEF on these hops.
Not sure if they could/would be able to relax the cockpit restrictions to allow cadets to see the modern airliner office but even if not, getting airborne would still put some AIR back in.
I had a chance to do one in the late 90s. Two of us went to Heathrow one morning and flew economy to Edinburgh in a BA 757. On the way home we were also expecting to fly economy, until two non-operating pilots offered us the jump seats.
A great experience, but as you say probably ended by 9/11. The closest you may get now is jumping on the Akrotiri trooper from Brize. During term time (when it was a VC10) it was rarely full, and was a great opportunity to welcome families onto the flight deck. Obviously the latter is less likely now (and I don’t know what rules 10 & 101 use wrt cockpit visits).
I recall those. ‘TAN’, or ‘TANN’ flights, or whatever they were called… I never knew what it stood for.
I had a hop to Glasgow in Dec of 97 I think. Met Ainsley Harriet whilst waiting for our return flight.
I was a cadet on a summer camp at Northolt and somebody on the camp staff thought I deserved a flight on a BA shuttle from LHR. About 1hr and a ham sandwich later, four of us found ourselves stuck wandering Glasgow on a rainy day, wondering what we’d done wrong because everyone else had a day walking around sunny central London. (I must have really p1ssed someone off, because a couple of days earlier I was also volunteered to wear “The Suit” on the visit to the dog section. Waddling down the rugby pitch like C3PO looking for the bog roll, with a 45kg GSD charging up to bite me, wasn’t my most dignified moment.)
[quote=“wdimagineer2b” post=18005]I recall those. ‘TAN’, or ‘TANN’ flights, or whatever they were called… I never knew what it stood for.
I had a hop to Glasgow in Dec of 97 I think. Met Ainsley Harriet whilst waiting for our return flight.[/quote]
TANN iirc.
[quote=“Leeroy” post=17945][quote=“juliet mike” post=17926]AtCranwell on camp every cadet got a PAX on kingair.
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Indeed 
An aquatance of mine was telling me about some of his Air Experience flights, he was a cadet from 44 the best one, was a trip in a Sunderland where they flew out to shoot up and sink various bits of debris floating about in the water… :woohoo: now thats an experience flight…
That’s absolutely true - my last Sqn was at a very large former flying boat base and the old boys had lots of stories like that. During the war, the Sqn would also regularly help out with re-arming and general servicing.
My current Sqn is at a former AA gunnery school and for a time they used Vengeance dive-bombers as target tugs (which had seen sterling service in Burma but by then were withdrawn from combat roles). Cadets would regularly get rides and sit in the rear gunner’s seat, watching Bofors shells whizzing past the tail… The pilots would also often put the Vengeance through the full dive-bombing attack profile for fun. :woohoo: