You can clearly see the traffic is stati…oh its a pic 
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Contact the company with the video and the police, easy.
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That will just benefit the farmers who hire their neighbouring fields (mainly for camping)
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Post 2008 (the wettest year which saw it cancelled) , lot more car parking if not the vast majority are “inside the wire” (red and green car park anyway, ie arriving from the east or west)
I was listening to the RIAT Radio show as we departed on the Sunday evening and it sounded like they want to double the size of the Techno-Zone and double the number of kids attending “Futures Friday”.
That being said, I thought the Air Cadet area was pretty poor . . . Walking past, essentially all you could see was a big marquee with tables and chairs under it and some people sat or stood around talking. All the Sims stuff were hidden away in side tents and pretty much out of sight.
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Yes not really anything to draw in the casual visitor.
The RAF Village wasn’t a lot better, most things tucked away in a marquee, but actually some really interesting stuff if people made the r effort to look for it.
Upside is RAF staff weren’t busy and so happy to talk to annoying CFAV!
Send the video to Op Snap - I’ve had a couple of good results from there when drivers have tried to kill me whilst I’ve been on my bike.
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Can also report directly to the business.
Sound like “what all governments do”
Exactly — so why would you want another layer of government (especially one you can never vote out)?
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Event withdrawals the week of the event, from those who were selected 3 weeks ago.
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We have an epidemic of this at the moment. Signing up and withdrawing a day later, withdrawing 2 days before the event, not even bothering to tell us.
I’ve decided we’re going to implement a strike system, and if people do this repeatedly I’m going to ban them from attending activities for a time period.
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The drops outs will all be getting emails from me in the morning asking why (AI will help me write them)
They will also be blacklisted for future events when I’m oversubscribed.
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This is okay depending how close to the deadline. Better to do this than be a no show. Accidentally sign up is a thing.
This is rude but the email notification thing is what this for so perhaps they think that there’s no need to notify as you are already aware.
I would use the deadline as the key thing. Sign up & drop out at will prior to deadline, explanation needed for those who drop out after. Lower priority for the no shows….
I guess now it almost feels too easy to sign up to an event, and to withdraw. It’s done ‘silently’ as such.
I’ve had a similar recently of 12 sign-ups and only ending up with 6 cadets on the event. Great for those 6, but means then running accidentally at a 1:2 ratio instead of 1:4. Feels very inefficient.
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It is - and it seems to be getting worse.
Cadets putting their name down for multiple events and then picking the one they want is a thing too
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I wonder if quite a few cadets need reminding that bidding for an event is a commitment to attend that event. Withdrawing is only to be used for major/unexpected things that come up. And a reason should be given.
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System we have at work for our volunteers is that each event has a deadline.
You can sign up & withdraw quite freely up to the deadline.
When deadline reached email sent to whoever the organiser has listed with those who are attending & those on reserve.
After the deadline only the event organisers can withdraw you. Late sign ups go onto the reserve list & must be manually added to the attending.
I think more needs to be made of the deadline system in sms & linking it to actions rather than just a suggest guide.
I think the best solution might be to force them to put a reason when they click withdraw. Just a pop up with a mandatory field text box.
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Would also be useful to easily get stats as Sqn staff for which cadets have a high % of dropouts.
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