Originally Posted by
planesandthings
Though the rules were relaxed slightly, it's still very strange that a lot of the time 2FTS insisted on Assistant/Full Category instructors to fly cadets at BGA sites when their own G1s are significantly less experienced than this (let-alone barely current after the pause).
Even as a experienced assistant category instructor I couldn't fly cadets as being 20, I did not meet the required "21-65" age bracket to fly cadets, a very strange rule seeing as the VGSs have triumphed with young instructors for decades .
It was no wonder that some clubs gave up trying to fly cadets and focused on developing their own fantastic junior flying schemes (that have caused a few defections!). Hopefully ACTO35 as it was then has been tamed down. It's only the cadets that lose out... not the BGA clubs or 2FTS.
Indeed, we have had more than one BI who was under 21. But most BGA clubs were developing their own Junior flying schemes long before this debacle surfaced.