Page 36 - Cadet Review Spring 2025

 SWY Wing ATC
TECHNOLOGY BOOST FOR
MIRFIELD AIR CADETS
In the modern world of Air Cadets, the need for
access to computer systems has become an
essential for a vast array of on-squadron activities
such as the delivery of lessons, theoretical aspects
of many aviation and space themed subjects for
example/
Staff at 868 (Mirfield) Squadron identified a need
to enhance their ability to support cadets with some
new computer equipment. In response to this need
Civilian Instructor Sue Doubell prepared a bid for
funding to Mirfield Educational Charity, to provide for
ten new laptops for the Squadron.
The charity makes grants to advance, either
generally or individually, the education (including
social and physical training) of persons under the
age of 25, in the area of the former Urban District
of Mirfield. The trustees approved the grant for
It is so
important
to have the
equipment
to support
our cadets
and their
development
the Squadron who were then able to purchase the
equipment and get the new laptops delivered and set
up for use.
On the very first night of having the laptops at
their HQ, the cadets wasted no time in putting the
computers to use in carrying out assessments of
subjects they had recently been learning, and this
meant that several were able to complete a new level
of their classification syllabus.
Squadron Commander Flight Lieutenant Peter
Doubell said “In this increasingly technological age it
is so important to have the equipment to support our
cadets and their development in the wide variety of
learning and activities that are available to them and
a very big thank you to Mirfield Educational Charity
for the generous grant enabling this to happen.”
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