Further to post 2737
If they bin everything, and 'contract out' why couldn't they have done this three years ago? At least then we'd have given our cadets the chance to glide. I've now got cadets on my unit who're about to leave to go to higher education who have not had this amazing opportunity. Granted they have been able to fly in one of the Queen's machines. But does an hour in the back of a Chinook or Herc really compare?
If the fleet is scrapped, why not contract out all cadet flying to civilian training schools. All civilian FTO's are supposed to be CAA approved and audited, or doesn't that count?
There must be any number of these organisations across the country that could offer a service much closer to the cadet units than those locations currently being mooted.
Departs into back garden to dig a trench to avoid incoming......