No idea. I just saw “gunsight” footage from the drone
There are ways, fairly well documented but I’m not going to share here.
I doubt they will be covered by our OM!
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I’m in danger, there’s at least 2 drones overflying st Mary’s stadium today…
Must be looking for the troublesome Man Utd fans 
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Does anyone know if there were any RAFAC teams invited to this or any RAFAC people there to liaise and talk to the MOD about being included:
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No we weren’t. But we are reaching out now.
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This shouldn’t take long, given that there is no free market in China and all ‘companies’ are tools of the Chinese Communist Party.
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Looks like the new RPAS courses will make cadets eligible for Wings. Cadet Portal now shows the below as requirements for Bronze Wings:
…and for Gold (which seems to be missing ACPS/AGT options at the minute):
I can’t see the requirements for Silver (already have them) but presumably “RAFAC Remotely Piloted Air System (Drone) Silver training package” and/or “CAA A2 Certificate of Competency (A2 CofC)”.
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I wonder if they will be putting CFAVs through the GVC course to be able to support Cadets learning this or if they have partnered with an external provider and will provide at Region/HQ level.
GVC has a lot of requirements around and pre-work and ops manual that the Cadet will need to do or will they be part of a RAFAC ops manual.
All courses will have to be RAFAC as we go beyond the DMARES, A2 CofC, and GVC requirements. We have our own flying competence requirements that maybe other elements don’t.
We are getting there.
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So does that mean the Cadet will be trained beyond those levels so should be able to go and take that test if they wanted?
Thinking about transferrable quals etc it would be good for them to get the civilian recognised qual.
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We are going to be our own CAA approved entity to deliver these qualifications. So yes, we will train CFAV as supervisors and trainers.
However, the ‘pump prime’ element to establish each region with a core of GVC pilots starts in December with the supervisory level. Then cascades thereafter with more and more.
Within a year or so, each wing will have a core of instructors with regional supervision. That’d the plan and why it’s taking us a while. Build it well, build it once.
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They will have the CAA qualification from RAFAC training. Totally transferable.
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This now has MoD approval and we are beta testing its robustness. The first ‘students’ will start to use it in the next few weeks and that’ll allow us to iron out any vagaries before it goes live. Progress.
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Excellent news
I look forward to hearing more officially.
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As I’ve alluded to above. Some supervisors at national and regional level will receive training in December.
Is it up to each wg/rgn how these are selected?
Have a core of instructors is good but it’s what the core looks like in three years. In order for that to be successful you need to fully imbed in standard sqn daily mindset.
Otherwise it’s likely to peter out at year 3 & year 6 (the latter being the attempted reboot)
Will 2FTS be involved in any interviews of said instructors to stop favouritism and gaming the system??