Learn to Fly - Solo! 
The main aircraft you will fly in is the Grob Tutor.
It is a two seat fully aerobatic light aircraft. During your first flight you will get to fly the aircraft under the careful supervision of the pilot. On your second flight you will be able to do aerobatics if you wish. You may be able to obtain a flying scholarship and learn to fly a plane solo or perhaps a microlight would be more to your taste. Both are available in the ATC via national selection boards.
First time Flight
Cdt Joe Parks
Since I joined the ATC I have had plenty of great experiences one of the best has to be flying. The first time I went flying I was nervous that something might go wrong even if we were with highly trained RAF pilots. When I got all the kit on and was waiting to go up all the nerves went and all I could feel was excited and then even more so when I actually got in the plane. I got to take the controls and I would definitley say that was the best bit. Once we had landed all I wanted to do was go again, my names definitely first on the list in future.
Cdt Price
One of my favourite things in Air Cadets is the flying. It's like one huge rollercoaster, but a million times better! When I first did a loop I couldn't help but laugh, it was an amazing experience!
This could be you doing some aerobatics!
Gliding
Gliding is available in a Grob Vigilant powered glider. Here you can progress to various levels of ability and could soon be taking your first solo flight. Many achieve this before they can even drive a car, it is arguably much safer too.
Here is what one cadet wrote about her Gliding Scholarship. "I had been given the fantastic opportunity of a gliding scholarship. I found myself in a room with 12 strangers and the first challenge was getting to know a bunch of strangers from all over the country, the 'Big Brother' effect set in, but it was easier than I thought.
By 10 o'clock the next morning we were sitting on the airfield, soaking up the sun, I eager to get up and fly.
As we progressed through the week, we learnt how to take off, land and maintain flight in the climb, straight and level and in the glide. As we neared the end of the nine day course we were practicing flying circuits, where we take off, climb to 800ft, adjust to straight level flight, tum through 180º to be parallel with the runway, then power down into the glide for the final approach with another 180º turn, pick up speed and descend for landing.
Once our circuits were up to scratch we flew with our assessor. The scariest moment of the whole time was when the assessor told me he was going to get out and let me fly solo.
My solo circuit went perfectly until I landed when I almost taxied into another glider, but I stopped in time to the cheers of my new friends and had earned my silver wings."
A cadet had the chance to learn to hang glide and wrote "I was called into the office and told I had been offered a hang gliding course, after checking with my school I jumped at the chance and nervously waited for six weeks. So off I went to
On the first morning we were briefed that the weather was too bad to fly so instead we did classroom work and Adventurous Personal Development Training. On bad weather days we did more of this and also went indoor rock climbing, shooting, shopping, walking and did and assault course and fitness trail.
In the end we only went gliding on three days out of twelve but I still learnt a lot and got the chance to go solo.
I had thought that nothing could top my gliding scholarship but I was proved wrong. The course was the best opportunity I have had, it was a fantastic experience all round"
Other Aircraft
There are opportunities to fly in other aircraft operated by the RAF, often at summer camp.
In 2006 cadets flew for up to 6 hours in Nimrod aircraft at RAF Kinloss. The training flights over the North Sea proved very exhilarating pulling several G in tight turns at only a few hundred feet above the waves is not something to forget in a hurry.
Other flights have been in a Chinook helicopter, VC10 tanker, and one lucky cadet flew in a Hawk at RAF Valley when she was awarded Best Cadet at camp.