OCTOBER 7TH, FALL RESTART – RECALLING ALL CADETS:
Thursday, October 7th, all cadets are asked to attend virtually as we will start our program online. Our new physical location, Pierre-de-Blois French Public High School has had some unavoidable construction delays preventing us from starting up in person at the moment.
We are going to keep you updated as we learn more information for our in-person return to operations. For now though, we don’t want anyone to be behind so we are start to gather via Google Classrooms on October 7th, where we will begin providing weekly attendance credit to all cadets who attend. This counts towards our merit list for promotions, summer training, awards and rewards. Note that only cadets who are registered members are able to attend training offered, including virtual training.
REGISTRATION FOR NEW YOUTH MEMBERS:
If you know any 12-15 year old youth interested to join 75 Squadron, our registration process opened September 1st.
How to register:
1. Parents/guardians use this link to register on any device, by choosing 75 Barrhaven Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron;
2. Submitted forms will be received by Squadron staff, who will verify the information, and contact parents/guardians for proof of Canadian Citizenship and to present their health care cards.*
3. Once registered, an email will be sent with instructions on how the new cadet will be assigned to a group, and introduced to their supervising adult – a Level Officer, who will be their primary point of contact.
*To all the parents/guardians of interested cadets – we have had an unfortunate delay to our ability to process applications as this newly updated process is often blocked at the second step – we are unable to process registrations without having a photocopy of your health card and accepted proof of identification. Given that our physical venue isn’t accessible yet, there are two options available:
1. Drop them in an envelope marked “Attn: 75 Air Cadets – P.O. Box 34038” off at Shoppers Drug Mart’s Post Office, 3781 Strandherd by Home Depot; or,
2. Come see us and drop them off at the Farmers Market at the Nepean Woods Park & Ride from 10am to 2pm on two Sundays, October 10th or 24th.
In addition, the following resources are available:
Online Registration Tool for Cadets – this page has information for parents that can support parents through the process for successful completion of the registration.
Online Registration FAQs for Parents – This page will grow as we receive more feedback from user’s experiences.
SO YOU WANT TO BE A PILOT?
National Cadets Junior Rangers has partnered with PAL Aerospace/Moncton Flight College to deliver a national virtual ground school program. Successful completion of this course is required in order to be considered for the glider pilot training course (GPTC) and the power pilot training course (PPTC).
Interested candidates who would like to participate in the virtual ground school program must advise their chain of command, and include [email protected], deadline on FRIDAY 1 OCT 2021.
In order to be eligible for virtual ground school, cadets must meet the criteria to apply this training year for glider or power.
1. Be a member of 75 RCACS;
2. Must complete level 3 by the end of the current training year; and
3. Must be at least 16 years of age by 1 SEP 2022.
Further details will be provided in the coming weeks.
Cadets365
As many of you may have heard, cadets will be migrating to Cadets365! As such, Teams will be our main platform for this training year. However, the region is still working on the onboarding of cadets to Cadets365. Cadets who are already set up with Teams are encouraged to use this as their primary email for the program. If you’re not set-up yet, don’t worry, until more cadets get onboarded to CDT365, we will continue to use Google Classroom, so keep an eye out for communications from your Level Officer, and we will keep you posted on your onboarding.