Rob P wrote:Years back when I was in the ATC (cadets, not pilot botherers) we did a Cairngorm survival exercise. Chucked out of a 3-tonner with water bottles, greatcoat and o/s map in the late afternoon and expected to make a finish line some miles away by noon the next day.
Rob P
I wonder what the Risk Assessment forms would look like for that one?
Out of curiosity, was it just cadets, or any Officers/NCO? I’m hazarding a guess you probably didn’t get much “classroom” training for it, but there were (hopefully) some senior cadets who’d done the same/similar who gave hands on training.
ISTR in the mid 80s relatively frequent news articles about groups of youngsters (scouts, cadets etc) getting lost, then local mountain rescue,plod, volunteers etc spending the night looking for them. I never understood the fuss (as a kid at the time...as a parent now, that’s something different).
Only if they hadn’t turned up the day after, or weather had turned killer unexpectedly. Cairngorms as an example can go from sunny 20oC dawdle to fighting a horizontal sleet storm in a wink.