New Senior Members

If you are looking to get involved in an exciting volunteer program, the Civil Air Patrol offers you a diverse range of important and challenging opportunities. Pilots looking to exercise their flying skills can participate in the emergency services aircrew training program. Mission pilot training teaches you how to participate in a search and rescue mission, set up a search pattern, enter a search grid and perform exciting low level flying. Non-pilots can also participate as scanners and observers, possibly operating the high resolution optical equipment called ARCHER fitted to the GA-8 airvan.

Ground based personnel are trained to perform UDF (Urban Direction Finding) missions to look for ELTs (Emergency Locator Transmitters) that are triggered in the event of an accident. The Civil Air Patrol offers excellent first aid training and ground team search training programs.

Communications form a vital part of the CAP mission, and radio operators are often the first to learn how a mission is progressing. There are plenty of mission base positions that need to be filled to make a search mission operate effectively.

Cadet programs also form an important part of CAP's role. If you are knowledgeable about the aerospace industry and like to teach there are plenty of opportunities to provide cadets with training, knowledge and to inspire them to pursue a career in aerospace.

To join Squadron 61 you will need to attend three meetings. Your application will be reviewed by the membership board before being sent to National Headquarters for processing. Visit us one Tuesday to find out more!

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Meetings take place the second and fourth Tuesday of each month from 1900h (7:00pm) to 2100h (9:00pm)

The squadron building is at 55 Durley Avenue, between C&J sales and SkyBlue Air