Site Links

ATC Info 967 Sqn Info

CO's Introduction General Information Adventure Training Millenium Volunteers Sqn Sports Activities Development & Leadership BTEC & NVQs Local Visits & Visitors Current Staff Members How to join us

Regular Activities Cadets Stuff Guest Book Site Map Sqn Members Only Contact Us

External Links

967 Sqn Info Adventure Training

Adventure Training

Adventure Training forms an essential part of the Air Cadet's training syllabus. As well as helping cadets forge new friendships, adventure training enables all cadets to show off their leadership quailities.

There is a wide ranging Adventure Training syllabus in the ATC - depending on the squadron you attend, you could try your hand at watersports, skiing, or fieldcraft. Specialist leadership courses, such as the Junior Leaders, use fieldcraft as a way of teaching more senior cadets leadership skills.

Most squadrons don't just organise camping for Duke of Edinburgh's award expeditions. Often, a camping trip will be planned for the sheer enjoyment of it! As a cadet, you will have the opportunity to plan your own route, and be taught how to use navigational techniques. Then you get to go out and try your skills in the field!

Don't worry if you don't manage, however - our BELA and ML qualified staff will be on hand to help if you get into trouble. Never cooked over an open fire? Put up and slept in a tent? Spent up to a week in the field? At your local squadron, camping trips could take place regularly!

National Air Cadet Adventure Training Centre, Llanbedr, North Wales

The Cumbria & North Lancashire Wing regularly hold a weeks adventure training course at the National Air Cadet Adventure Training Centre in Llanbedr, North Wales. The Centre is staffed by a full time instructors and is fully equipped with all of the safety equipment and other kit needed to take advantage of its position in the midst of excellent mountainous and wild country. Activities include rock climbing/abseilling, hill walking, kayaking, Ropeworks (a high level ropes course), orienteering and even white water rafting, amongst others.

Fieldcraft Exercises

Fieldcraft is an exciting part of any squadron's training programme, and the promise of a good exercise is always guaranteed to get good attendance. This section is here to tell you more about fieldcraft, to give you some guidelines on the subject, and hopefully improve the fieldcraft on your squadron.

Fieldcraft is, to put it simply, the art of living and moving in the field. Although the ACO is generally focused on different activities, fieldcraft does play a part in most Squadron's training programmes.

An average squadron might run 'exercises' which vary widely. Many involve two teams being pitted against each other. Exercises vary and each places emphasis on different aspects of fieldcraft. Some might need you and your team to move slowly and quietly, sneaking up on an 'enemy' installation, perhaps. Others need speed as well as stealth, and you will have to decide how much of one to trade off against another. An acknowledged advantage of fieldcraft exercises is that it forces people to use their initiative much more often. You could find yourself in a decision-making position as a relatively junior member of the squadron.

Fieldcraft is often used by squadrons as a method of assessing cadets' leadership qualities - what would happen, for instance if the 1 and 2i/cs (first and second in commands) of your team went down? Would you take control? Do you have the skills and abilities?