It was a families day today at an RAF station. Did wonder why the airspace over my head was so noisy!
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Another day, another Crimpit masterpiece for lunch!!
Iāve been using the Mico Toastie recently to make some great cheese toasties in the microwave 
Ausgezeichnet!
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Wild camping is back on
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Brilliant news!! Iām tempted to go and camp on Darwellās land at every opportunity, but it isnāt a particular nice or popular bit of Dartmoor ironically 
National RAFAC wild camping muster on their lands, anyone?
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Donāt start, weād probably need to TOPL it!
Nah. Just make it a national camp with no more than 15 personnel, not in uniform.
Then use the AT exemption.
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Just stop there. You seem to forget normal rules donāt apply to national camps, they can do what they like, so no TOPL needed 
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Just what weāve witnessed with D&C recently. Wing are insistent that we follow the policies for our activities, but have decided to throw them away with D&C, leading to many disappointed cadets.
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Why what was the issue?
Wing quietly asked for a shortlist several months ago, but didnāt provide much info about what the camp involved, so it was difficult for us to sell it as none of us at our sqn have had any experience of it.
They then opened up the SMS activity much later, and it was open like any other. So naturally, cadets reviewed the information and put their names down for it. Only then the word came back to us, again very quietly, that only the cadets who had earlier gone via the shortlist would be accepted.
Had that last fact been communicated we might have done things different. But it wasnāt, and now cadets are missing out because Wing chose to act outside of policy.
Even if they hadnāt had the SMS open for applications, that would at least have been a start.
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Getting some great feedback from my recent PSI course. 
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Having my visit article published by the CAA! 
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A very wet camping trip in Cornwall. Made use of the time to complete daughters Aviation and Space badge for Brownies (think the Space badge is more interactive than our blue and bronze) and part way through her performing badge
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Submit the resources and ideas to the Training team 
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It actually required her to do something more than watch a 30 minute presentation. She had to do the research herself (not easy on a dodgy campsite WiFi signal), make something and use it.
This being aimed at 7-9 year olds
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Actual paper logbooks??
Itāll never catch on.