11F Brooklands Squadron ATC • Welcome To 11F Brooklands ATC

Welcome to the online home of 11F Brooklands Air Cadet Squadron

How does flying a light aircraft or learning to pilot a glider solo grab you? Maybe joining an operational RAF refueling flight out over the North Sea watching Tornado and Typhoon aircraft coming in to refuel? Or maybe you'd prefer target shooting and gaining your marksman qualifications?

The Air Training Corps (ATC) offers these and many more activities. You might prefer field exercises trying to outwit the other team and catch them unawares, learning radio procedures, sports or even scuba diving. The Air Training Corps (ATC) organise and often fund these and other activities and Air Cadets are able take part in any activities they desire.

As a cadet in the Air Training Corps (ATC) (Air Cadets) you can participate in a wide range of different activities and gain BTEC & First Aid qualifications and gain Duke of Edinburgh (DoE) Bronze, Silver and Gold awards.

What's more, you'll probably find that being an Air Training Corps (ATC) cadet will help you get jobs by providing you a wide range of skills for life.

So really, what's there to lose? You can arrange to 'give the 11F Brooklands Air Training Corps (ATC) a try' any Monday or Thursday evening and it won't even cost you anything!

Give us a call to come and see what serious fun you could have with the 11F Brooklands Air Training Corps (ATC). Take a further look at the Air Cadet activities you can enjoy with the Air Training Corps (ATC).

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Flying

Gliding

Shooting

Sport

Adventure Training

Anual Camp

The ATC is the world's largest gliding organisation, and Air Cadets attend gliding courses at one of the various 27 Volunteer Gliding Squadron's (VGS's) located around the UK. Air Cadets from 2187 Squadron attend gliding at 614 VGS at MDP (Ministry of Defence Police) Wethersfield, nr Braintree in Essex.

The backbone of the winch-launch fleet is the Grob Viking (shown right), a two seat glider used for all types of glider training. Cadets can aim to gain Gliding Scholarships and achieve different levels of gliding 'wings' (see below). Many Air Cadets from our squadron have have gained different levels of 'wings' in recent years.

Gliding Scholarship courses can be over several weekends, or on a continuous week course. There are opportunities to become a Staff Cadet on the gliding squadron, which would see you helping cadets from a variety of other ATC squadrons enjoy their gliding experience every other weekend.

The ATC also uses the Grob Vigilant glider, which has an engine - this means it can climb to height on its own power, then switch it off at the right height to act in the same way as a winch-launched glider. This provides a quicker turnaround time in between launches.