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Cadet life is about learning through practical experience, especially in the great outdoors! Here’s a taster of what’s in store.

This is what it’s all about: activities that offer challenge, excitement and adventure and the knowledge you pick up along the way through structured training and first-hand experience.

Adventure Training, Band, Camps, Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, Fieldcraft, Flying and Gliding, Shooting and Sport are just a few of the activities on offer in the Air Cadets, so to keep things simple we’ve broken it down into areas which you can access using the links below.

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The Grob 109B motor glider, known by the RAF as the Vigilant T1, is used by the Air Cadet Organisation to give basic flying and gliding training to air cadets. The aircraft is built in Germany, but it has been modified to meet the RAF’s training requirements by the inclusion of an additional throttle in the cockpit and an increase in the maximum take-off weight. The Vigilant is currently used by 16 Volunteer Gliding Squadrons (VGSs), located at various sites around the UK. Their role is to train air cadets in basic flying techniques and to enable them to reach a standard where they are able to fly solo. Courses available to the air cadets are the gliding induction course, the gliding scholarship course and the advanced gliding training course. The Vigilant T1 aircraft is also used at the Air Cadet Central Gliding School, at Syerston, in Nottinghamshire, where it is used to train the VGS instructors.Gliding

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Bronze D of E team 2016Adventure Training

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