Hi Dave
No offence taken - very thick skinned
You are right that using all of the Service Flying and Gliding Clubs could really help. Recently, whilst not an Air Cadet event, some 122 school kids were flown by Halton Aero Club and the Chilterns Glding Centre the following week held a ‘longest day’ event with 134 launches over the day for any Service personnel or their families to try conventional gliding. So in 2 days that is 256 movements that could have had Air Cadets in them.
Here is the article and video for the Halton Aero Club event:
https://www.forces.net/news/young-fl...air-raf-halton
So you are right, there are possibilities there, but we need to remember that Service Flying and Gliding Club members don’t normally mind doing such an event 2-3 times a year whereas the VGS did the same, for a 12-24 kids, every weekend.
As for the state of Air Cadet flying? There are I believe 12x AEFs with a further planned soon for Northern Ireland, there are 3x Viking VGS now running at Kirknewton, Syerston, Little Rissington with a further 5 planned (I stand to be corrected on that?). Then there is the Air Cadet Flying Scholarship with Tayside Aviation.
LJ