There was to be more emphasis on Sports, Charity, Social, Adventurous Training, Force Development, OASC Preparation, etc (as has already been stated).
So, apart from OASC, join the OTC and do that sort of thing a whole lot better!
10 hours per year. Just not worth it - I suspect the VR pilots get more out of it than any of the students - or rather, the interested passengers.
Personally I think the current pathetic excuse for the UAS system may as well hand their plastic pigs back to the bank and go home. Either that or do things properly - with military QFIs (that's
real QFIs, not just AEF pilots given a laying-on of hands) providing disciplined flying training to a defined syllabus.
idle stop - you'd barely recognise 'our' part of White Waltham these days. But you'd recognise the UAS scheme of today even less....
And why the hell are tax payers stumping up for UAS students to bog off to Peru or wherever for 'charitable work'? What's wrong with the UK for that?