No. 2 Flying Training School RAF
Its headquarters is located at RAF Syerston in Nottinghamshire and gliding takes places from several sites throughout the UK using the Grob Viking T1.2 FTS has had various roles including being the first military flying school to use jet-powered aircraft throughout pilot training.The school had a special flight attached to it to carry out research for the Professor of Aeronautical Services at University of Cambridge.The school moved to RAF Digby in Lincolnshire on 30 June 1924, but ceased operations on 29 July 1933 and disbanded on 15 December of that year.These units would concentrate on training personnel arriving from overseas in the techniques and conditions of flying in a blacked-out northern Europe.The unit was reformed at Church Lawford, England as 20 FTS on 3 April 1945 but was renamed 2 SFTS on 4 September 1946.Equipped with Chipmunks, a Bulldog section was added in 1973 which operated as the Royal Navy Elementary Flying Training School (RNEFTS).[5] Almost two years later, on 10 March 2016, the Ministry of Defence (MOD) announced it would relaunch and drastically reduce gliding provision within the Air Cadet Organisation.2 FTS was heavily criticised for not communicating the plans to withdraw the Vigilant T1 from service and the restructuring resulting in closure of many volunteer gliding squadrons.[10] Criticism was also voiced with respect to its retention policy of volunteer personnel, management of its contracted maintenance organization, failure to achieve continued airworthiness management organisation approval during two years of non-flying,[11] limited recovery of aircraft, and the approach for acquiring Part Task Trainers with grants from the RAF Charitable Trust.614, 615 and 626, are awaiting return to flight, but continue to train cadets on ground school elements and Part Task Trainers.CGS provide instructor training and standardisation both from their base at RAF Syerston and on visits to squadrons.[13] The unit is commanded by a Group Captain in Full Time Reserve Service (FTRS), the first full-time flying appointment given to an officer of that rank.
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