825 Naval Air Squadron are currently embarked in RFA Tidespring teaching students the art of Deck Landing, something they are going to become experts in over their careers!

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Yesterday #825NAS landed in Portsmouth for a school visit and careers event HMS Temeraire. Hundreds of students across the day had the opportunity to look around the Wildcat and ask about a career in the Fleet Air Arm as aircrew or engineers.

The display practice continues with BLACK 1 carrying out a few run-throughs of the Solo display today under the watchful eye of the Display Supervisor! He maintains radio comms with the display aircraft and provides feedback to the display crew after each display. #BlackCats

Introducing the 2024 Black Cats! 🐈‍⬛️🐈‍⬛️

As Qualified Helicopter Instructors on #825NAS they are busy working up for the display season around teaching the current students Night flying and Deck Landings.

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Is it Big Foot? Is it the Loch Ness monster? Or are these grainy videos a sighting of the lesser spotted Black Cat? 🐈‍⬛️

#BlackCats #Comingsoon

.815 Naval Air Squadron’ personnel have been honing their skills with Martlet missiles carried by their Wildcat helicopter 🚁

Forces News was given a guided tour around the helicopter ahead of a joint training exercise in Norway 🇳🇴

Find out more ➡️ brnw.ch/21wJ3rj

You may have seen our previous post showing you that #Somethingiscoming

Well here is one more

I wonder what it could be?

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A few weeks ago we paid a visit to Yeovil College to talk to the students about all things Royal Navy , #FleetAirArm and #MaritimeStrike . It was great to meet so many great people and hopefully we will be teaching a few of them to Fly or Fix Aircraft soon!

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Always good to come back to where it all began!

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825 Squadron Wildcats Impress with Dynamic Drills at Prestwick - writes Doug Maclean

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#825NAS are currently up at Prestwick Airport conducting training for both of the OCU courses. Low Level Nav, Maritime Security, Formation and Maritime Strike sorties are being conducted over the next week as the students close in on Wings!

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WMF demonstrated the capability of the Wildcat helicopter and the variety of opportunities within the Royal Navy during their flying visit to Yeovil College for National Careers Week.

Learn more? 👉 royalnavy.mod.uk/careers

#royalnavy #royalnavy career #career #opportunity

The UK's premier attack helicopter..

...and an Apache.

Today instructors from #825NAS visited RAF Shawbury to give students there an insight into the #WildcatHMAMk2 .

#NihilObstat #FlyNavy

The Army Air Corps RNAS Yeovilton

Our QHIs have been teaching formation flying this week. A skill used to navigate multiple helicopters as one unit, tactically for pair attacks or even as part of display flying.

#FormationFlying
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Feb 12th 1942, the RN attempted to stop a breakout by the core of Hitler's Navy from Brest to Germany - the 'Channel Dash', a date which has entered Fleet Air Arm & 825 NAS history.

“One of the finest exhibitions of self-sacrifice and devotion to duty the war had ever witnessed”

This is the view from the flight deck during a night landing as a Wildcat hovers over the deck. We teach these landings with and without the aid of NVGs.

#WildcatHMA

Over the last week we have been qualifying students for day & night deck landings.

Using these skills they will shortly be operating to the flight deck of RN ships around the world delivering maritime strike capability.

#WildcatHMA #DeckLanding

A great day yesterday awarding wings to three of our aviators who will now go on to join 815 Naval Air Squadron

The day also featured a display from the Black Cats showing friends and families what the Wildcat can do!

#FlyNavy #BlackCats

Today 825 Naval Air Squadron awards ‘wings’ to 3 aircrew - BZ Lt Lovett & Lt Wylie who will receive their wings alongside Lt Cdr Rychtanek of the U.S. Coast Guard 🇺🇸

Lt Cdr Rychtanek is the first woman to receive FAA wings as a Royal Navy Wildcat HMA pilot

Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard
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