I see on the Facebook pages, post Bank Holiday, that Topcliffe VGS report sending
ONE Cadet solo on the Vigilant , (WOW - a whole
ONE !!!) and 644 VGS after THREE days of Bank Holiday have sent ONE staff member solo, and have completed 150 launches of Vikings over three days - wow, an average of 30 a day - that's world class ! ( one rained off) - WOW !!! We are going to make rapid inroads into getting Air Cadets backsides off the ground like this !!!! (
NOT )
Add to that the miserable rate of Convex of VGS Instructors to AEF pilots - and extreme tardiness in converting and qualifying to take Air Cadet PAX, it looks like they almost could get "done" under Advertising Standards legislation for having the word "AIR" in the name of the organisation !
And of course not forgetting that the Vigilant will be gone by 2019 latest ( if it survives that long ), and the combined numbers of "recovered" airframes of both Viking and Vigilant will be only 31 to 41 in TOTAL ( and notably a huge number less than what our Parliament was told !) , then the future would seem remarkably bleak.
Can we have a new statement made to Parliament to reflect the actuality rather than the aspirational one made some time ago ?
