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Old 9th Feb 2022, 14:13
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Apparently, AOC 22 Gp and HQAC have removed the responsibility for teaching ground school and the flight simulators from 2 FTS and the VGS.

It took some time, but it was finally seen as a terrible waste of time to have cadets at a VGS, but for them to spend a whole morning in a classroom. Hence why gliding numbers have remained painfully low since the end of the pause.
As a knock-on from these low numbers, the lack of slots at VGS meant only a small number of cadets were getting the ground school and this was an unnecessary blocker to cadets getting wings for their flight at an AEF, (of which there were hundreds).

The ground school and flight simulator sortie will now be taught within squadrons, where it should always have been.
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