page_title: University Air Squadron
section_title: Flying Training
hierarchical_section_title: University Air Squadron / Training / Flying Training
caption_attribution_description: English: A Grob Tutor T2, belonging to the University of Birmingham Air Squadron, in flight over Scotland.
context_page_description: University Air Squadrons are training units under the command of No. 6 Flying Training School RAF of the Royal Air Force and their main role is to attract ambitious and intelligent students into careers as RAF officers. Primarily its goal is achieved through offering basic flying training, force development and adventure training to undergraduate students at British universities. These units exist to provide a taste of life in the Service and to give experience to their members in preparation for taking up a career as an officer in one of the RAF's many branches.
  Members are expected to attend training nights, usually on a weekly basis, as well as attending several annual training camps. The flying syllabus of 31 sorties loosely follows Elementary Flying Training and allows a student to achieve some ten to fifteen hours of flying per year. The flying training is supplemented with ground training and adventure training, both in the UK and abroad.
  UASs are part of the RAF Volunteer Reserve. Many are parents to Air Experience Flights which provide experience of flying to Air Cadets.
context_section_description: Most UAS training is a cut-down version of EFT and focuses on training the student to various levels of solo standard. 
  Successful completion of the Core Syllabus qualifies the student pilot for the award of the Preliminary Flying Badge (PFB), or 'Budgie Wings' as they are sometimes called.  However, each student is expected to reach solo standard before the end of their second year on the squadron.  This has become one of the criteria for granting a student member a third year of membership.
  For those Officer Cadets who finish the Core syllabus with time remaining on the squadron, an advanced syllabus has recently been introduced consisting of Aerobatics, Formation Flying and Low Level Navigation.  There is no specific time requirement as with the core syllabus, as progress in the advanced phase is made at a rate by which the student pilot is able to achieve the desired results.
caption: A Grob Tutor T1, belonging to the University of Birmingham Air Squadron, in flight over Scotland
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