Our cadets love to be outdoors in preference to class work, classifications etc.
You should have seen the fun they had plotting simple articles on a range card from a basha that they had erected after creeping down to the field trying to avoid the NCO opposition patrols. 2 NCO’s dressed upon Ghillie suits and jumped up and chased them if they were not sufficiently covert!
Things we took for granted as kids because we had no computers, phones or social media and were always out and about from dawn to dusk!
Nothing like playing soldiers or Cowboys and Indians for a bit of fun for kids!
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Personally no. but that’s not my role.
But I have a team who do, anlmost all are ant Sqns weekly, and we have gone to great lengths to include the cadets in the development at every stage. We even delayed the blue roll out to take account of feedback from cadets, and staff, who participated in the trial at NASC.
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in a round about way, we are all saying the same thing. I want people flying drones outside. But I don’t want that to be an obsession where it’s a barrier to anyone getting involved with RPAS.
The more complex qualifications require outdoor flying.
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Many of mine jump at the chance to go on a SIM or VR.
I got a load setting up their iDEA accounts on their phones, they were well away and happy.
Our AT has struggled a lot more this year than previous years to fill walks.
Offer up a cyber course and I fill it easy.
Having a balance is necessary. We won’t get all of them without breadth of opportunity.
And I can take map reading as a parallel; for most, the first step is classroom learning. We don’t teach the basics on the moor, we practice it.
A Sim is equivalent to a map on a table and a diagram on the projector.
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Have you reached out to the Air Cadet Charity in line with their grant windows?
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It’s something that’s being looked into 
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yes - there were two aviation themed surveys sent out in 2021…
discussed in detailed here: 2FTS Aerospace Experience Survey
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I think this post on social media fits perfectly with this discussion -
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hey @Hercules, quick point I wanted to clarify from the OM, please?
The OM considers sites with reserve activity as being DE not VE, where RPAS flying is very limited…
However, the RFCAs who actually own reservist sites seem to consider sites with only reserve activity (no regular activity) as being VE, not DE, meaning that a squadron on an ARC by that definition has much more freedom to fly. (e.g. https://www.wmrfca.org/managing-the-estate/ ).
Could you clarify which of the two definitions is correct? i.e. can Type A drones be flown inside a squadron building located on an ARC?
One is for security (ours) the other is for estates management. The former is one that must apply. Sorry.
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