To add insult to injury, the air cadet organisation is flatly refusing to even consider allowing sqns to team up with local civvy gliding clubs, to allow their cadets to get some gliding. This despite the civvy clubs being all for it, and offering some really good deals to sqns. I hear of one club offering a local sqn £3.50 launches and free instruction/air time.
Why not? You guessed it - health & safety, risk assessments, CRB/DBS, paperwork, red tape etc. etc.
In the meantime, Army cadets over at Wattisham have successfully teamed up with the Anglia Gliding Club and are busy racking up the hours in their gliders
In a year or two, the only cadets who will qualify for the flying scholarships will be Army cadets!!!!