Originally Posted by
POBJOY
'ATC Gliding 'AS WAS' is still doable, but not under the current management regime, who have effectively killed it off.
Ask yourselves why; with new winches, trucks, and a supposedly reasonable supply of 'recovered machines' the UK skies are not home to the 'reborn Vikings'. Answer They don't know how to do it. The 'Doing It' expertise was all in the Squadrons and when they went so did the capability. Assuming you could find a suitable VGS team to help steer the ship back on course an 'experienced' VGS thinking 'think tank' would have to convene at HQ Air Cadets to make it happen. How would you do that; well I could suggest that a well proven way was to build a Squadron then split it until you have the required no of units. Whilst waiting for qual 'CATS' to cover solo ops this could be covered by suitably qualified types covering more than one operation as required.
The nonsense that is the PTT should be removed as part of the training, although they could go to the Wings for
pr/recruiting duties that at least have an Aviation theme. In a nutshell they need to 'involve' those that were 'doing it' well for so many years and let them help get the system back on line, no one else has a clue.
err so you've pretty much described what is happening with CGS providing the nucleus to then split out to autonomous ops