NCAITC

Question 1

What is the purpose of NCAITC?

Answer 1

• To deliver air-minded leadership training in order to develope credible, highly motivated, physically and mentally robust Senior Non-Commissioned Officers (SNCOs) capable of undertaking specialist training in the air environment.

Question 2

Before training?

Answer 2

• FAMILIARISATION VISIT
• Happens roughly 1-2 weeks prior to NCAITC
• Candidates must pass an OACTU fitness test

Question 3

Induction week?

Answer 3

• OACTU fitness test
• Arrivals administration
• Interviews and addresses
• Photos
• Kitting
• Welfare & Health and Safety briefings
• BVP
• MT licensing
• Intro to defence writing
• Leadership and fellowship
• Daily PEd and intro to Battle PT

Question 4

Working weekend 1?

Answer 4

• Weekend before Week 1

Providing assistance to a local community conservation project.

Question 5

Week 1?

Answer 5

• Diversity and Inclusion brief
• Defence Presentation brief
• Drill
• Written and Verbal comms
• Intro to pine poles and lashings
• Confidence Course
• Leadership Theory
• ESK
• Daily PEd
• Battle PT

Question 6

Working weekend 2?

Answer 6

• After Week 1

Undertaking project work in the local area

Question 7

Week 2?

Answer 7

• Leadership theory and exercise
• Written and Verbal Comms
• Drill
• Navigation theory and exercise
• Exercise Protocols
• Climatic Injuries
• Daily PEd
• Battle PT

Question 8

Week 3?

Answer 8

• Leadership theory and exercises
• Navigation exercise and test
• Written comms exam
• Daily PEd
• Battle PT
• OACTU Fitness Assessment (OFA)

Question 9

Week 4?

Answer 9

• Initial Practical Leadership Test (IPLT)

- BVP

Question 10

Week 5?

Answer 10

• Additional Practical Leadership Training (APLT)

Question 11

Week 6?

Answer 11

• ESK and ESK exam
• BVP
• Maths
• Drill
• Verbal Comms (inc. 5 min talks)
• Charity/Social evening
• Mid course interviews
• Daily PEd
• Battle PT
• Exercise Ultimate Challenge

Question 12

Week 7?

Answer 12

• Exercise Southern Border

Question 13

Week 8?

Answer 13

• AP studies
• Verbal Comms (inc. 10 min talks)
• Maths
• Drill
• ESK
• Ethos and Heritage visit
• Training Dining-in-Night in Warrant Officers and NCO’s Mess
• Daily PEd
• Battle PT

Question 14

Week 9?

Answer 14

• Exercise Border Patrol

Question 15

Working weekend 3?

Answer 15

• Weekend after Week 9 (Border Patrol)

Defence presentation prep

Question 16

Week 10?

Answer 16

• Defence presentation
• Maths exam
• BVP
• Progress review board
• Phase 2 training briefs
• End of course interviews
• GRADUATION

Question 17

Exercise Ultimate Challenge

Answer 17

• 3 Hour Battle PT Session
• Competing in teams
• Series of relay races using heavy training equipment
• Immediately followed by a 10k race where teams carry a stretcher and a weighted dummy, or build and push a chariot.

Question 18

IPLT

Answer 18

• North Cranwell Airfield
• Mentored through a series of leadership tasks, lasting 2 hours a piece
• Covering 8-10k a day over flat terrain with a few obstacles
• Staying in normal accommodation

Question 19

APLT

Answer 19

• Stanford Training Area (STANTA)
• Leadership tasks more difficult than IPLT
• Covering 10-15k per day
• Eating from ration packs and sleeping in the field

Question 20

Exercise Southern Border?

Answer 20

• Takes place in Otterburn Training Area, Northumberland.
• Covering up to 18k a day over difficult and hilly terrain
• Eating rations and sleeping in tents

Question 21

Exercise Border Patrol?

Answer 21

• PASS/FAIL (Summative leadership task)
• Takes place in Otterburn Training Area, Northumberland
• Distance, Terrain the same as EX SB.
• Hardened accommodation provided
• Must pass one leadership assessment (2 chances)