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No. 3 Squadron Air Training Corps <3sqnatc>

"The matrix of leadership is not found, it is earned."

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	UPCOMING COURSES	Il y a 116 jours
	Northern Area and National NZCF Courses for term two of 2009 are listed below. Nominations are to be received by Northern Area CFTSU by the dates detailed below Northern Junior Leadership: 25 Sep – 3 Oct Noms Due to ADJ by 8 Aug 09 Airforce Experience: 28 Sep – 2 Oct Noms Due to ADJ by 8 Aug 09 Exercise SEENAVY: 28 Sep – 2 Oct Noms Due to ADJ by 8 Aug 09 Army Experience: 28 Sep – 2 Oct Noms Due to ADJ by 8 Aug 09 Officer Update Training: 16 – 18 Oct 09 Noms Due to ADJ by 24 August 09 Officers Range Safety Officer Cse: 6 – 8 Nov 09 Noms Due to ADJ by 29 Sept 09 Officers Instructional Technique Cse: 20 – 29 Nov 09 Noms Due to ADJ by 26 Sept 09 ATC Air Navigation Course: January 2010. Noms Due to ADJ by 26 Oct 09
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	PROFICIENCY & ADVANCED FLIGHT SHOOT	Il y a 116 jours
	Sunday 26 July: Well done CDT Rosser on scoring the top Cadet score of the day. CPL Fu scored the top JNCO score of the day. F/S Sumner scored the top SNCO score of the day. U/O Jefcoate scored the top Under Officer score of the day.
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	UPCOMING SQUADRON EVENTS	Il y a 116 jours
	Sunday 23 August - Gliding (Prof & ADV & NCO's) Sunday 30 August - Gliding (Prof & ADV & NCO's) 11-13 September - Prof and ADV Flight Tramp (Prof/ADV/NCO's) Saturday 19 September - Arthur Lydiard Run (ALL) Sunday 20 September - Battle of Britain Parade (ALL) 25-27 September - Basic Flight Aviation Camp (Basic & NCO's) 3 October - SQN Dine In (ALL) 9-11 October - DIES PORRO 3 (ALL) 1 November - ADIDAS Marathon (ALL)
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	TRANSFORMERS: Revenge of the Fallen MOVIE TICKETS	Il y a 166 jours
	You can buy tickets now from 3 SQN, 6 SQN and 30 SQN to the new TRANSFORMERS movie - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Tickets are $20, and are for the night after the opening night of the TRANSFORMERS movie - Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Screening at Westfield St Lukes on Friday 26 June, at 7.30pm. Prebuy your tickets before they sell out. Bring friends and family. This is a big fundraiser for 3 SQN, so please make sure you support us.
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	POWER FLYING CAMP - OPERATION TOP GUN	Il y a 184 jours
	Over the weekend of 15-17 May, 43 cadets from No. 3 (City of Auckland) Air Training Corps ventured up into the skies for Operation Top Gun. The cadets took to the skies for their Annual Powered Flying Camp, held for the first time at Parakai Airfield. For most of the cadets, it was their first time up in a small powered aircraft. Despite a weather forecast of rain, hail and thunderstorms, the weather stayed fine, allowing all the cadets up for at least one flight. Half the cadets made it up for a second flight before the weather closed in on Sunday afternoon. An ex cadet of the Squadron, Chris Barry, now the Marketing Manager for Flightline Aviation, donated three hours of flying time in a demonstrator Cessna 172SP with a Garmin G1000 Glass Cockpit – completely state of the art. The pilot, Roger Hay, an instructor with the flying school, also donated 3 hours of his time to take the cadets up. The cadets also flew in two Tecnam’s owned by Parakai Airfield, and a second Cessna 172 from Ardmore Flying School, piloted by Cadet Under Officer Mitch Brady from No. 4 (Ardmore) Squadron Air Training Corps. For the cadets waiting their turn up in the air, activities such as orienteering, first aid and leadership exercises filled up their time. The cadets also ran a simulated control tower, where they monitored radio traffic, recorded all take offs, landings and radio calls. An evening BBQ and swim at the Parakai Hot Pools ensured that the cadets unwound after their exhilarating day up in the skies over Parakai. The Lockie Family, who own and run Parakai Airfield, were the most gracious hosts, and provided heavily reduced price flying in their Tecmans, complete with qualified instructors for the weekend. Special mention must be made of Simon Lockie for helping facilitate the weekend, and also to Harvey and Bryn Lockie for their superb, and patient, instruction of cadets in the art of flying. No. 3 Sqaudron is the oldest Air Training Corps Unit in Auckland, established in September 1941. Now based at Unitec in Mt Albert, with a roll of over 100 cadets, representing some 14 different ethnicities, the Squadron is in great shape. The goal now is to put as much “air” back into the Air Training Corps as possible. And Operation Top Gun helped achieve that.
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	Basic Bushcraft 2009	Il y a 204 jours
	The weekend started with everyone coming to Unitec promptly at 7 o clock. There were a couple of late arrivals but no one late enough to miss the bus. All of the cadets seemed excited and slightly nervous, as the only thing that they knew was going to happen was that they would have to sleep in tents. Everyone then quickly got first their gear and then themselves onto the bus in order to begin their first bushcraft camp. The bus ride went through Pt Chev, Avondale, New Lynn and Titirangi getting closer and closer to the winding turns of Huia road the whole time. As the bus got closer and closer to the Huia campsite the cadets got louder and louder until finally we went up the last stretch of road to the campsite. The cadets slowly got out of the bus and began the unloading. The cadets got introduced to the idea of using a chain to empty the bus; however both the bus driver and Pilot Officer Lloyd managed to empty the bus in record time. Next came the challenge of pitching the tents in the dark. This was led by U/O Greatrex who made sure all the tents were picture perfect. If they weren’t everyone and their gear would get wet and nobody wanted that. On Saturday morning everyone got up bright and early at 6am to the W/O, F/S Sanders and the crowing of the roosters that inhabited the campsite around us. As everyone got up and out of their tents they had to jog on the spot, waiting for the last people to get out of their tents. After that they had a quick session of PT, firstly having a quick run and then being introduced to burpies. Most people got into it but what they really wanted to do wasn’t PT, it was to have breakfast. Everyone’s breakfast was interesting. A lot of baked beans were in evidence but there was a bit more variety than that. Quite a few of the NCO’s had bacon and eggs, omelettes, and even some porridge… The bacon was pretty good actually. Next we had the first three rotations of lessons. I was teaching Search and Rescue and each time I did the lesson it got a bit more refined. We started off the lessons by practicing the sound line with our whistles. A sound line is used to completely saturate an area in sound so that a lost person can hear the rescuers. The rescuers then wait five seconds, then listen out for the sound of the lost person. The cadets were all impressively loud and learnt how to do the sound line very fast. A couple of them even had a chance to lead the sound line, all of whom showing that they had taken in the lesson. The array of whistles was quite good with one that looked like a mini horn and another that had a mirror, compass, and various other attachments. After they did the sound line the cadets had a chance to do some searching of their own. An observation gallery had been set up and around the side of the hill with 12 items and (for some teams) F/S Sanders hiding in the bush. Out of the two teams that had F/S Sanders there no one spotted him. Although one team managed to spot his camouflaged hat. Each team did very well and all of them managed to spot most of the items. There were a large variety of items out there and the most difficult to spot were probably the SpongeBob Squarepants belt and the bandages. A nice surprise at the end were the toy dog and the spatula. After the search a couple of teams also got to have a practice with the soundline, the simulated lost person was their section corporal and they all managed to find them. Good job! After lunch we then did shelters and camo and concealment. I don’t know how the camo and concealment went but the shelters were certainly a success. I don’t know how many of those shelters I would actually have slept in but they all stood up to the bucket test. Half a bucket of water was thrown onto the fly with a person or two from the team sitting inside. The last two groups had most if not all of the people in their team ensconced in their shelter and an entire bucket of water was thrown on them. All of the occupants did manage to stay dry though they all seemed decidedly nervous. The two types of shelters covered were the lean to and the more conventional type of shelters. After shelters there was the last Search and Rescue lesson and it was with Bravo One. This group did especially well!!! One of the mini groups spotted eleven out of the twelve items only missing the SpongeBob belt. The other two mini groups spotted ten out of twelve each. Next we all had a rather tasty dinner. At least I did, it was a meal of tomato soup and sausages with just a hint of PLT OFF Lloyd’s chili. A couple of people had a chili eating contest, U/O Ho won. Afterwards everyone cleaned up and started the wait for the night ex. For the briefing everyone got told what they were going to be doing. They had to climb stealthily up the hill next to the campsite and try and avoid the NCO’s who were hunting for them and get to U/O Greatrex who also manned the machine gun spotting cadets from the top of the hill. A team of girls were the first to get up the hill with many people making it up once or even twice. An impressive achievement. The NCO’s all had a lot of fun spotting the cadets that were trying to be stealthy and of course there were all the people in the glowing white shorts. A lot of people had unpleasant surprises as NCO’s appeared seemingly out of nowhere, catching them as they were talking. That night we also had a first aid situation with one of the cadets feeling sick. U/O Greatrex looked after them and made some hot chocolate and got out some cookies. The situation ended up with a couple of people sleeping in the barn with them to make sure they stayed out of their rather wet tent. They ended up being fine and got up bright and early Sunday morning to join in with the PT which involved a little jog around the campsite. After that we had breakfast (Pancakes…YUM!!!) and then the brief for the tramp up to the peak of goat hill. The unit commander showed up just in time for this, driving up the road to the campsite just as everyone began their walk to the start of the tramp. The upwards climb was quite steep and finished when we got to a large tree surrounded by a walkway. Most people then elected to walk up to the summit of Goat Hill a thirty minute return journey. Everyone then guess the height of the hill. I guessed 354m and Singh guessed 350m. There were a couple more guesses but the two of the ended up being the closest. The winner was decided by paper scissors rock. Just so you know the answer was 352m. We also all had photos with the pink panther. We then walked for a bit longer and although the cadets may not have realized we did the first two parts of river crossing. The first is, of course, if there is a bridge use it. And the second was walking through a stream; the NCO’s all made sure none of the cadets was rock hopping. After all this we had out lunch next to the Karamatura stream, another campsite that 3 Squadron often uses. Then it was a twenty minute walk back to the campsite. It was now the final stages of the camp. Everyone packed up their gear and packed up the tents. There was then a giant emu parade headed by the unit commander, the cadets did a very good job knowing that if they did it wrong they might have to repeat it, or even face the prospect of repeating it while doing burpies. The bus loading at Huia was done very fast with the bus unloading happening even faster. Most of the cadets then played mind games with U/O Gardiner and then had the camp debrief and a couple helped the NCO’s put away the last of the gear. All and all it was a great camp that was enjoyed by everbody, despite the slightly bad weather. F/S Roberts
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	Email from Air Vice-Marshal to FGOFF McKenzie, No. 3 SQN ATC	Il y a 253 jours
	from LINTOTT GRAHAM, AVM date 16 March 2009 09:23 subject BOMBER COMMAND THANK YOU unclassified Kirsten, Apologies for my tardiness in corresponding with you. I just wanted to acknowledge you and your Squadron's support for the Bomber Command Memorial event a few weeks ago. I thought it was a moving ceremony and very well orchestrated. Your Cadets and officers played a crucial part in the smooth operation and I wish to acknowledge them all for their dress, bearing, and friendly engagement with everyone throughout the event. Well done 3 Squadron !! Yours sincerely, Graham Lintott Air Vice-Marshal Chief of Air Force
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	BOMBER COMMAND MEMORIAL UNVEILING	Il y a 277 jours
	Cadets from 3 SQN have been invited to participate in the unveiling of the Bomber Command Memorial at the Auckland War Memorial Museum on 1 March 2009. As part of our involvement, the organisers have asked if a senior cadet would be able to read the Ode in front of the 200+ guests, including the Chief of the Air Force. Cadet Flight Sergeant Joshua Sanders has been selected to perform the Ode. We are honoured to be involved in this solemn occasion. http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/4826...
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	In memory of the two ATC cadets and the two RAF pilots who died on 11/2/09	Il y a 284 jours
	Further details of the two cadets and pilots who died in the mid-air collision in Wales on Wednesday. Katie-Jo Davies, 14, was on her first flight after joining the Air Training Corps just before Christmas. Fellow cadet Nikkita Walters, 13, who joined ATC last June, died in the other light aircraft near Porthcawl. Two pilots who also died on the air experience flights were Hylton Price (WGCDR Ret.), 63, from Bridgend, and FLTLT Andrew Marsh, RAF, 24, of Penarth, Vale of Glamorgan. Additional details can be found at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/w... This is the address of Katie-Jo Davies and Nikkita Walters ATC Unit should you want to send a condolence card. 1004 (Pontypridd) Squadron, Air Training Corps RFCA Centre Broadway Pontypridd Mid Glamorgan CF37 1BW
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	Upcoming NZCF Courses	Il y a 288 jours
	Get your NZCF8's in for the following courses: Officer RSO Course 27 – 29 Mar 09 Nom’s due: 13 Feb 09 National Gliding 07 – 14 Apr 09 Nom’s due: 25 Feb 09 Junior Leaders 10 – 18 Apr 09 Nom’s due: 27 Feb 09 Officer Outdoor Leaders (Wai) 08 – 19 Apr 09 Nom’s due: 27 Feb 09 Junior Outdoor Leaders (Wai) 08 – 19 Apr 09 Nom’s due: 27 Feb 09 Senior Outdoor Leaders (Wai) 08 – 19 Apr 09 Nom’s due: 27 Feb 09 Advanced Leaders 09 – 20 Apr 09 Nom’s due: 27 Feb 09 Senior Leaders 18 – 26 Apr 09 Nom’s due: 06 Mar 09 Air Force Experience 20 – 24 Apr 09 Nom’s due: 06 Mar 09 Army Experience 20 – 24 Apr 09 Nom’s due: 06 Mar 09 Officers Instructional Technique 08 – 17 May 09 Nom’s due: 27 Mar 09 Officers Commissioning Course 22 – 31 May 09 Nom’s due: 21 Mar 09 Officers RSO Course 12 – 14 Jun 09 Nom’s due: 01 May 09
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