Dear Regional Commandants, we must ensure that all volunteers have viewed the content of the HS&E awareness/refresher training CD-ROM that I circulated to all ACO formations last year and I would be obliged if you would assist me by placing the following text into your next RRO and also on your HS&E section within BADER.
URGENT - ALL VOLUNTEERS
Following visit to ACO formations, my H&S Advisers have reported that although the vast majority are compliant, significant numbers of volunteers have not viewed the Health, Safety and Environment, awareness/refresher training CD-ROM, issued to every ACO formation last year. During a recent RA training course, not one volunteer had viewed the material.
As this is a fundamental part of the ACO, Safety Management System and a Comdt AC instruction, OC's are to ensure that all volunteers have viewed this material before commencement of any ACO activities.
The Royal Observer Corps monitor post at Elliot on the outskirts of Arbroath has been re-furbished to it's original state and is open to visiting groups by appointment.
A tour of the facility, learning about the role of the ROC during the cold war and the function of a typical post, can be arranged by contacting ::
Between 1950 and 1991, the ROC had some 1563 posts located around the UK. For more information on these posts you can visit www.subbrit.org.uk/rsg/roc/index2.shtml which has information collected by enthusiasts on all the former posts.
Many have been completely detroyed, some have been renovated, and others are securely locked.
Introduction. A variety of outdoor activity instructor courses for ACO adult staff of all ranks including CIs, Instructor Cadets and staff from CCF (RAF) sections, have been arranged to help and encourage individuals to work towards and ultimately gain nationally recognized qualifications, to instruct/lead adventure training activities.
Adult members of The Sea Cadets and Army Cadet Force are invited to apply and will be allocated places on a “fill up basis”. The courses will be held at theWindermere, Llanb
edr and Llanwrst Adv
enture Training centres.
Full details of Course Requirements, including Timetable of Courses and Application form can be downloaded (by site members) from here.
Recently an air cadet from 2231 Forfar Squadron took to the skies for an air navigation exercise. Cadet Michael Rose, 13, made the flight with Civilian Instructor Graeme Hammond. Michael had to navigate his way on a pre-planned route leaving from Scone.
Cadet Rose said, "It is a lot harder than it looks; you have to work out your airspeed, heading, the wind variation and a lot more things. We managed to follow our route as far as Pitlochry, when weather changed for the worse forcing us to abandon the navigation exercise and plan a different route. This gave us an extra 10 minutes in the air so I was very pleased."
Michael completed his navigation exercise getting his instructor and himself home safely and as promised. Mr Hammond even bought him a bacon roll!
Cadets and staff of 2231 (Forfar) sqn turned out in force to pay tribute at this years remembrance parade in Forfar town centre. Commanding Officer Flight Sergeant Mark Preston was very proud to see that every single member of the squadron was on parade on remembrance Sunday last week.
"We had 14 cadets marching in the squad and 1 carrying the ATC banner as part of the colour party; we also had one cadet on parade in Glamis. I was very proud of the turnout on the day".
On the 9th of November ten cadets from 2519 (Strathmore) Squadron, journeyed to Royal Air Force Leuchars for Air Experience Flying at 12 A.E.F. (12 Air Experience Flight).
There they joined up with cadets and staff from 38F (Perth), Squadron. They were joined in the afternoon by cadets and staff from 1192 ( Kirkcaldy), 859 ( Dalgety Bay), and 1370( Leven) Squadrons.
6th October 2008 is the 70th anniversary of the historic Imperial Airways Mercury and Maia flight from Dundee to South Africa. The following is the story of this historic event.
Carefully-conducted tests had proved that an Imperial Airways' Empire flying-boat could achieve a transatlantic crossing only if its entire payload consisted of fuel. Since it is well known that an aircraft can be flown at a much greater weight than that at which it can take off from the ground, Robert Mayo proposed that a small heavily loaded mailplane be carried to operational altitude above a larger 'mother plane' and then released to complete its long-range task.
Cadet Rose said, "It is a lot harder than it looks; you have to work out your airspeed, heading, the wind variation and a lot more things. We managed to follow our route as far as Pitlochry, when weather changed for the worse forcing us to abandon the navigation exercise and plan a different route. This gave us an extra 10 minutes in the air so I was very pleased."
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