Hi Bill
84 Gliding School - later 624 GS

Nice little picture on this page -

https://www.exetermemories.co.uk/em/...portphotos.php

longer ron,
Many thanks indeed for the info and the picture ref. Good days!
Bill

Given the drift away from the thread title, perhaps a number of these latest posts could be formed into a new thread over on the 'Aviation History & Nostalgia' forum?

I was just about to say the same.
This thread is to highlight what's happening right now, and how the 'air' has definitely gone from the 'Air Cadets', as well as how it is ditching physical (allegedly risky) activities on a monthly basis.

C - Controls - Full & Free
B - Ballast - Not Fitted
S - Straps
I - Instruments (both of them, or was it 3)
T - Trim
C - Canopy - Not Fitted
B - Brakes - Not Fitted but we do have spoilers - Fully Open and in line, Fully Closed.
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By 1981 it was:

C - Controls - Full & Free and moving in the correct sense
B - Ballast - Not Fitted(Check!)
S - Straps -Tight and locked
I - Instruments - ASI reading normally, altimeter set to zero.
T - Trim - Not fitted
C - Canopy - Not Fitted
B - Brakes - Not Fitted but we do have spoilers - Fully Open and in line, Fully Closed?

Ah but the above referred to pure gliders; was there a different checklist for Venture/Vigilant?
Flying with the Ridgerunners (microlight club) at Halton we used 'E' added at the end as a generic term for 'Engine' which encompassed power checks etc.

On the Vigilant we used standard RAF-style FRCs.

Same on the Vikings...memorising checks was very much not the order of the day ...FRC's to be used every time!

[QUOTE=GreenXCode;11628300]After CISTRS, on 618 @ West Malling in the late 70s IIRC, the Sedburgh and Kirby Cadet were using:

C - Controls - Full & Free
B - Ballast - Not Fitted
S - Straps
I - Instruments (both of them, or was it 3)
T - Trim
C - Canopy - Not Fitted
B - Brakes - Not Fitted but we do have spoilers - Fully Open and in line, Fully Closed.

( Cable Break, SIT on your arse for half an hour, then another Cable Break )

I think you'll struggle with this one...this is the Military Forum on pprune...you know there are very few on here that live in the present day. You can post any topic on here and within a couple of posts the whole thing in derailled with a "when I was in the RAF in the 1970s" post and thats it, endless "back in the day" chatter.

Why on earth would you need RAF-style FRCs to fly something as simple as a G103 or G109??

Better ask the Powers That Be who issued them and CFS who expected us to know them.

Didn't it seem a bit excessive? I mean, we are talking about simple sailplanes and motor gliders, not a Starfighter.

​​​​​​​Says it all really eh POBJOY.

...I think mostly to keep Staff Cadets busy updating them on a rainy day!

Absolutely NOT! It's important, given the current international situation, that people know how just how much has been lost over the past 2 or 3 decades.

For example, most of the aerodromes mentioned in this thread no longer exist as RAF aerodromes. It was easy enough to close them and sell them, without any thought about how to deal with any surge need for more aircrew....

I suspect you may be correct. I wait with anticipation for the next Vulcan thread.

I'm not sure how relevant it is to the current international situation for folk to regale us with recitals of Mk3 and Eagle winch check lists. As I say, discussions which are more appropriate to the Aviation History and Nostalgia forum.

"I'm not sure how relevant it is to the current international situation" You do know campbeex, that reading these threads isn't mandatory? Moaning about something you saw on the interweb is exactly the same as deliberately stepping in dog crap when you're walking down the street. Just walk round the dog crap, and don't read stuff you don't want to read.

The problem, Thud, is working your way through the "dog crap" to get to something related to the subject of the thread in question.