RAF Abbreviations/Acronyms Flashcards
ATC
Air Training Corps
OR
Air Traffic Control
ADCC
Air Defence Cadet Corps (est 1938)
IACE
International Air Cadet Exchange
AEF
Air Experience Flight/Flying
ie what you do at Wittering in the tutors
VGS
Volunteer Gliding Squadrons
we used to do this at Henlow before gliders all got grounded last year
HQAC
Headquarters Air Cadets
Based at RAF Cranwell
ISCC
Inter-services Cadet Committee
common policy for Army, Navy and RAF cadets
TEST
Training, Evaluation and Support Team
Sgt Sanderson is from this team
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (est 1949)
MGR
Main Guard Room (by entrance to a military base)
JRM
Junior Ranks Mess
Where you ate on Field Weekend
NAAFI
A grocery shop on a station, normally a Spar
CAC
Commandant Air Cadets
current Air Commodre Dawn McCafferty
ISTAR
Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance
(Sentries, Sentinel, Shadow, etc)
RADAR
Radio Detection and Ranging
RHAG
The type of arrester gear in use (stops planes if they overshoot a runway by putting up a big net to catch them!)
ORP
Operational Readiness Plaform
(Where a plane waits ready to scramble, eg if Russian aircraft get close)
OR
Operational Ration Pack (as you ate on Field Weekend)
BCU
Bird Control Unit
to stop birds flying into planes and bringing them down
DRDF
Digital Resolution Direction Finding
ILS
Instrument Landing System
ACLC
Air Cadet Leadership Course
the highest level course for leadership
ACPS
Air Cadet Pilot Scheme (ie Flying Scholarship)
