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An aircraft handler is a member of the Aircraft Handling branch in the Royal Navy of the British Armed Forces. Aircraft Handlers are responsible for the safe movement, launching (taking off) and recovering (landing) of all aircraft on board ships within the Royal Navy and some of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary .
It was known as the School of Aircraft Handling until November 1995, when the officer unit in Dorset joined. The whole site was at Gosport until 1957, and moved again in November 1959 to Cornwall. It included Naval Air Command Fire School. The current site officially opened in October 1995. [1] First night-time trials in September 2018
Operations room staff on board HMS Illustrious during Basic Operational Sea Training.. A. Cecil Hampshire's "The Royal Navy Since 1945" writes that [U]nder the system of Home Service, General Service, and Foreign Service commissions which was introduced in 1954, warships required to be re-manned with completely new crews more frequently than in the old days of "running" commissions.
The current squadron was created on 6 Dec 2001 from the Royal Naval Flying Training Flight. It operates the Grob Tutor, with its primary role to provide grading assessment and for Royal Navy and Royal Marine pilots prior to further flying training. It also supports the Royal Navy's "Flying Start" flying scholarship scheme.
A dummy deck laid out to practise aircraft handling and manoeuvring in a confined space. The Royal Naval School of Flight Deck Operations provides professional training for all naval aircraft handlers. The school also trains other Navy personnel and personnel from the RAF and Army who will be involved in operating aircraft at sea.
705 Naval Air Squadron is a Fleet Air Arm (FAA) naval air squadron of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy (RN). It currently forms part of No. 1 Flying Training School at RAF Shawbury and trains pilots and aircrew from all three services under 2 Maritime Air Wing, operating with the Airbus H135 Juno HT Mk1 utility helicopter.
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Royal Navy Police: Master-at-arms (Chief Petty Officers), Regulator (Other Ratings) RNP Seamanship: SEA Survey Recorder: SR Weapons Analyst: WA Fleet Air Arm: Naval Airman Aircraft Handler (AH) NA [fn 2] Aircraft Controller (AC) Survival Equipment (SE) Aircrewman - Antisubmarine Warfare (ASW) [fn 3] ACMN Submarine Service: Coxswain (Submarine ...