Apprenticeships in the Royal Air Force
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- Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
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Good stuff.
I wish I was young again, I'm a Great Grandfather now, I would do it all over again ~ I didn't expect to win a .22 rifle contest on the range at such a young age in my younger teens in the ATC (Air Training Corp). My first flight was in a glider which was amazing and then the next year my next flight was in a Chipmunk flying over the countryside and the coast.
I highly recommend the RAF for a career and if you are of school age to think about joining your nearest Air Training Squadron to explore the possibilities of future self advancement along with fellow colleagues who also wish to aspire.
@@charlieheard7053 how is it, and the pay?
What’s better? This or the army?
Thank you!
Looks like standards have dropped a lot from when i was in as you could not have a armfull of tattoos and you had to earn your stripes which could take about 4 to 5 years 🤨
I want to be a pilot in the raf but would I need an apprenticeship??
Hi
You need to meet all of the entry and eligibility criteria listed on the pilot role page on the RAF Recruitment website:
www.raf.mod.uk/recruitment/roles/roles-finder/aircrew/pilot
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I can’t do my dream job in the RAF because I’m bloody colourblind despite the fact it hasn’t held me back in my civilian life at all and hardly affects me........ brilliant.
Fly Past try it out register
Was that a pilot by any chance ?
Colourblind glassess anyone?
I couldn't be a pilot due to having asthma when younger. It's annoying but you just gotta dust yaself off and move on, try a different role or looks for a job that's meaningful for you.
Same thing happened to me, I set my life out in becoming a airline pilot had a few flying lessons ended up gaining about 6 hours of flight time. I then applied for a British airway future flyers day and was told by a pilot that I can’t become a pilot due to colour blind. But if you haven’t already I suggest getting a class 2 medical which mean you can obtain a private pilots license
Most of us old sweats have a very different idea of what an RAF Appo is!!
Orange goats
Me included. I was in 124 Entry Halton 1974-1977. A real apprenticeship.
@@jonmcgee3358My username says it all😁
And what was that?🤔
@@jonmcgee3358My username says it all😁
Could I join RAF, and later become an astronaut?
It isn't required 1000 hours of flight, but I wish to gain them. Any advice?
Fly for 1000 hours
Love the vids
POV: your taking a look at this vid in school
cool
Damn. Cant wait!
I would love to join the RAF as a technician but I don't meet the residency requirement even though I have british citizenship.
I thought as of now, anybody can join aslong as your a commonwealth member, let alone a citizen. They took out the years requirement of residency I believe, or at least for the army.
Hi
You will need to meet all of the eligibility criteria listed on the role page on the RAF Recruitment website. You will need to have lived in the UK for at least three years before you're able to apply.
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Same here. I don't meet their residency requirements (I'm Irish)
@Fnord Fnordington give it a rest you clown
Think of joining but I'm a White English Male
Would anyone be able to tell me what the Scottish equivalent of a GCSE is? I believe it is either a Higher or a NAT5 but im not sure.
It's a Nat 5
@@joshualudkin-finnie23 Thanks a lot :)
@@jester4057 No problem :-) Did you get results today?
@@joshualudkin-finnie23 Yep came in the post, just need another year and ill be able to apply for the RAF as a pilot and hopefully get in
@@jester4057 I got my Advanced Higher results today. I'm going to uni before hopefully joining as an Intelligence Analyst Linguist. Best of luck to you with becoming a pilot!
Wonder if you'll ever show standing in a Sanger at 4 am awaiting a hot box ?
Or four days in NBC gear during a Tac Eval ?
Or jumping out of the Mally window to avoid the SWO ?
Or trying to find your bike after you left it outside the Rugby Club on a Friday.
Why is he just going through the BIOS,
if I am successful and join as an aircraft mechanical technician, after a number of years in my job can I qualify to do other roles like survival equipment specialist, cyberspace technician and a weapons technician? or do I have to stick to my role?
RAF trainee:
During training we covered a variety of topics such as PC building, networking and checking for vulnerabilities in system
Manning:
Forget all that shit, you’re off to work on 1960’s radio and Radar equipment that you’re not even allowed to fix because you have to send it off to a contractor and then you’ll be in the Falklands for your whole career.
Fucking nice one.
😂😂
Wait what?
I wanna apply but i aint sure 🥺
What are you not sure about?
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Royal Air Force not sure on what course i want to do
Get down the careers office and see what is available, then see if you can discuss it with someone who has knowledge in that subject area and see what it entails.
@@Rt3bz
Have you looked at all of the roles we have on the RAF Recruitment website? We advise everyone to apply for a role they really want to do as you could be doing it for a long time, so it needs to be right for you.
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@@royalairforce hello I need help with my life choices Im 15 and I want to be a pilot but it says I have to wait till I'm 17.5 is there anyway I can join at 16 and work towards being a pilot
Ice hockey? Good man
What percentage of apprenticeships go to air cadets, please?
Hi
You don't need to have been in the Air Cadets to join the RAF. You only need to meet the entry requirements listed on the role page that you're interested in applying for. You'll gain the apprenticeship as part of the phase two training, so you'll apply and join the RAF and be full-time in service to get it. But being in the Air Cadets isn't required.
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@@royalairforce thank you
@@dharmacharinipasadanandi7110 air cadets are the same, they just get bullied a bit more
Nice 1 Conner👊👊
I know 33 isn’t too old to join, but is being 33 socially accepted and not frowned upon?
Hi
No, we have people from all through the age ranges for entry on every phase one training course, from 16-47, for all roles.
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I’m considering joining the RAF as a flight attendant, but I think I’m going to properly look into it in my next academic year, once I’m close to the end of my current college course (aviation). I just feel like there’s not tons of female insight available, since it’s obviously a male dominated industry. I don’t know if I would be able to keep up with the basic training and stuff haha
Is this new? Or have I never seen this on the website?
It was made yesterday, do you not read the description??
Ben s vlogs and gaming wasn’t asking when the video was made! was asking when raf apprenticeships were a thing.
@@robbiemcleod7068 Back in my day an apprentice did trade training for Airframes then straight away did the training for Propulsion. Basically, they did three years at RAF Halton. For me 16 months was bad enough! Once they had passed out, they could queue jump promotion far easier than the rest of us.
Apprenticeships have been around in the RAF for a while now
I don’t know whether I want to be an apprentice or go straight into a job
Hi
You gain the apprenticeship as part of the phase two training for the role. You have to apply, go through the application process and join the RAF to get the apprenticeship.
RAF Recruitment
Royal Air Force thank you!
I was a Halton Apprentice, twenty three years in the RAF, set me in good stead for my following career in a totally different field, you will learn so much more than a trade, The apprenticeship is the first step to the rest of your life
You don't get a choice, all new joiners are apprentices
@@xboxonegameplay9842 - no they aren't.
It's Trade dependant.
Hi RAF,
I indentify as a Chinook Pylon fairing hinged, Is there a role for me?
Thanks in advance 👍
Very good
I've talked to many ex RAF technicians, some in their 60's and most the decades inbetween and they all agree the training today isn't worth it. As an aircraft technician myself, the skill fade is vast. I know airframes have changed, but they still require the skills. For example I've worked with 60 year old riggers who can fashion panels, brackets, drill, Reem, rivet, form and carryout complex structural repairs. Come forward to today they don't even teach you to rivet at Cosford; who's going to do your repairs in theatre in years to come? Industry at great cost? Shame really in the 90's you had to cone from an engineering job to join. The 00's have an understanding, like being able to fix your car, motorcycle or the like. The late 00's you could join without any GCSE'S for a short time. They went back to having a standard but then the game playing Internet generation arrived. The standard of young folk today is terrifying, due to social change, the lack of training. They are setting themselves up to fail. With an unsustainable voluntary redundancy rate, skills are not being passed on, they are being lost. The pension scheme has gone, the exit door is wide open. Simple put, people do not want to serve Queen and country, go away for undisclosed amounts of time at short notice repeatedly. They want to chase the money, capitalism is full bore.
I may add, I find it appalling when I go into a tool stores and see chisels missing edges, screwdrivers blunt, drill bits blue!!!! They know and are taught nothing, mention cutting speeds you get a blank look. The shocking go to tools are a hammer and a large screwdriver, wedging between machined mating faces. It's carnage. If those in power took a civilian machine shop engineer into a any tool stores they would verbally destroy it. It's a true reflection of the lack of hand skills within. If anything today we should be higher skilled that those before especially working with composites.
Very interesting points!
And observations that many civilian engineers will agree with.
The thing you have to realise is that the military need a constant supply of bodies, and with less people signing up, they cannot afford the four year in depth apprenticeship that a civi would have. Also, a civi engineer is driven by a company that wants to make profit. Their performance is monitored and damaged parts/downtime is lost money,
When your job is on the line you certainly can learn fast and improve standards.
Sadly, because the military need bodies and they don't have a pool of 500 young applicants to 8 jobs, they can't afford to be as ruthless or to sack people who are otherwise good employees, but not the best engineers.
Some skill sets may have declined, but there are plenty of highly experienced and highly skilled engineers in the military, how else does equipment keep working in a war zone or other tough conditions?
And, there are a lot of defence contractors involved where military skill sets or capabilities may fall short.
Blaming the generation directly isn't quite right either.
Schools and society has pushed university as a way of life for too long and only the truly dedicated seem to get degrees worth having. Those who don't get degrees in decent fields of study struggle to get skilled work, companies dropped apprenticeships for many years leaving a huge gap in skills also.
Not to mention the fact that as a society we seem to discourage people from working with their hands and doing tasks themselves. This is capitalism as you have blamed. It teaches us to get "an expert" to do everything. Halfords even fit plastic wheel caps, wiper blades or headlight lamps if you can't be bothered! You couldn't possibly take a home appliance apart, not only can you not buy spares for them unless you are trade, but a new one is on sale in the usual shops...
And the worst thing is that we don't even want to pay these qualified "experts" for their time. We want the cheapest price and the quickest work.
I recently had an argument with someone that told a lady online that she had been ripped off by an electrician charging a certain amount for a "simple job" because it was easy if you had the tools and ability. - The price was a lot for the task if you know how to do it, but bearing in mind the sparky drove there, used their own tools, used the knowledge that they had trained for years to gain, used their test equipment which is calibrated annually and used their registered certification to assess it serviceable. She had NO IDEA where to start with the task either, so it wasn't like she could have done it and decided not to.
My mates a teacher. He said if he had his own company, he wouldn't employ anyone under the age of 35 as kids today are, and I quote "Fucking useless"
Back in the early 1970s I was a RAF Photographer at RAF JARIC Brampton but wanting to get out spending all my time in darkrooms developing film volunteered to served with 111 Lightning Squadron detached for a few months to Cyprus. Both on the runway hut and the hanger I got to see how Teckies worked and the standards Sgts made you keep to. As I was often told "If we make a mistake, we can kill a pilot". I left after five years, went into Civil Engineering and later became an IT Teacher and Trainer, so over my life I can say I have like you, witnessed the sad decline of so much, especially traditional basic skills not being passed on. The number times on checking the knowledge and workmanship of those fixing devices in my house, cars and building projects ends up with me falling out with them, telling them to leave, doing it my self or getting someone (if I can) to do it properly. In my own field IT, I just can't believe the lack of basic IT principles (ie TCP/IP default subnet masks) so called company IT Teckies you now find to deal with support calls plus absolute 'mickey mouse' self teaching internet courses.
sir is this RAF apprentice ship also for commonwealth citizen also as my age is 40+ can I apply and how to apply for this
Hi
Entry and eligibility requirements are listed on every role page on the RAF Recruitment website.
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Shame they don’t bring in people with no qualifications and then build them up as they did in the 80’s and 90’s. Then again getting 5 gcse these days is probably a similar level.
Hi
We have roles with apprenticeships that require zero qualifications for entry. Different roles have different entry requirements, not all roles requires GCSEs.
RAF Recruitment
@@royalairforce sorry I meant aircraft technical.
I really want to be a fighter pilot but am struggling to decide weather to fly for the navy or RAF. Can you do an RAF apprenticeship focused on being on a fighter pilot?
I'm unsure but the Navy has merged with the RAF as they share pilots if you wanted to pilot an F35.