Post 61
Yes Clive i read that one and just 'groaned' at what it has come to.
Thank God we had no 'badges' to go on our 5th hand ex Korean War silver blue/oil/blood stained suits. WE also had very smart 10th hand denims and WELLIES (some even had a 'matched' pair.)
Staff Cadet flying never took place unless the cables were 'twinkling' over the tarmac bits and the hangar lights were on.
Never saw a speeding Landrover or a parachute,in fact if you could get a LR up to 60 i think it made Air Cadet News;but a west country school rolled two rovers and got closed down. One of the 'rollers' became a centre instuctor !!!!
Mind you we used to get 'oodles' of Cadet solo's and it was quite normal for an entire course to go solo on a 6 day job.
None of this 'nanny stitching' nonsense;when a centre bod came down he was more likely to relate a story about a rough running Sabre engine in his Tempest on a ground attack sortie where the leading machine 'vaporised' in radar controlled flack.What have these absolute Idiots (in charge) done to the organisation that did not need 'reinventing',because it did what it said on the tin;Flew Cadets,got them solo,and then the keen ones kept it going until the next 'batch' came along and kept the cycle going.The RAF never knew what a simple and safe operation they had;all down to continuity and people who knew the business from the grass roots. Frelon you will have to come clean about shooting the Austin with a bow and arrow or you will not be able do any winching when the organisation starts again.
Syerston knows all about 'stitching'; Numpty control has a MBA in Stitching the organisation up big time.
Last edited by POBJOY; 11th Jan 2016 at 21:31.