Last year, the RAAF trialled a 4 day
Female Residential Flight Camp for young women interested in a flying career in
the Air Force, to align with their Women in the Air Force priority. Last
year's camp was a big success, however it was only open to students in the
South East corner.
The Flight Camp is being run again
this year and is open to all QLD residents/students, which means that female
students in our regions are able to apply.
The camp is run at RAAF Base
Amberley from 10 - 13 June 2014. Students are provided with
accommodation, meals, and 'uniforms' for the duration of the camp, so only
airfare and travel to RAAF Amberley would need to be funded by the successful
applicants. Students are fully supervised by RAAF and civilian female
personnel at all times. A parent/guardian does need to be present at the
info session on the first day to sign some additional consent forms and receive
information about the camp.
A fairly stringent selection
criteria forms part of the application and students must include a letter of
endorsement from their school. It would be a real good news story for NQ
if we were to have student/s who were selected for this activity.
Note that successful applicants are
selected by Air Force personnel who run the camp.
