Since I gave up the day job, I've been helping out part time at a flying school near to my home. The school has recently had a second audit from the CAA which it passed sucessfully. As I'm also an ATC CI i passed on the school details 'up the line' to Wing HQ, with a suggestion that they might like to use the school to give cadets some sort of air experience.
I was told that these had gone into 2 FTS (?) for action. Well, it's thre months on, and the school hasn't even had an acknowledgement from 2FTs.
As it seems it's it will be some time before any regular cadet flying starts, why can't use be made of properly certified civilian training organisations?
I'd really appreciate it if someone out there could answer come up with some sort of reply.