That one dislike.... must be an army Cadet. (cause the sea cadets are pretty cool with us)

This is a great recruitment video for the RCAC.

I'm in air cadets and gliding is one of my favorite things about it!

Thank you, Rick, for highlighting one of the best experiences I've ever had. Air Cadets made an incredible impact in my life and I will always, always cherish the memories and friends I made. -a former Warrant Officer 1st Class, 111 Pegasus RCACS

I smiled so much watching this. Im a glider pilot from Ontario and I found this quite amazing. Proud to say I am a part of the soaring family

THATS MY OLD SQUADRON

My first and only experience in a glider was with the Air Cadets. One of the best experiences I've ever had. Great flying! Warrant 2!

That was great, bringing back lots of memories. I was in the Cadets from 1980 to 1984. I did summer camp three times, Air Studies (1981), Glider Pilot (1982), Power Pilot (1983), and then worked on ground crew my last year at the Greenwood, Nova Scotia Glider School. I also did Air Studies and Glider Pilot training there and did Power Pilot at Moncton Airport, the Moncton Flying Club. Meet a lot of great people, made some good friends, and had a great time. The Cadets is a wonderful organization and I highly recommend it for all teens.

im an air cadet and i have loved this video for as long as i can remember and it was one of the reason i joined cadets, and as someone who has been in a glider before this video definitely does gliding justice!!

RAF air cadets and the RCAC air cadets should do a camp

Best use of music in an RMR piece!

I've been involved with air cadets in one way or another for over 45 years and this segment of rmr is one of the best recruiting things I've seen yet. Bravo zulu! Lt. (Ret.) M.R. LeBlanc, CD

Thanks, Rick. I was in 103 sqd. in N. Vancouver when we won the cup for best squadron in Canada!

That was awesome; brought back memories of my son in Air Cadets for 5 years up until he graduated; I also had the opportunity to go up on the glider; it was wonderful; I think my heart stopped momentarily when the rope broke free ha ha ha would do it again :)

Well done, Mr Mercer! The Cadet program is one of the best (if not the best) youth programs around. We are proud of these young men and women. It's rather amazing to think that because they haven't qualified for driver's license, a parent or Officer must drive the Cadet to the air field so they can get in a plane and fly. How wonderful is that, sir? Glad you enjoyed the ride. Capt T Parker

I am a former air cadet and this really brings back memories. Wouldn't be where I am today without that program!

Gliding this Saturday, so excited! I'm only a recruit, but I love my squadron

Air Cadets awarded me a flying scholarship in 1971 and I have made aviation my career from light aircraft to Boeing 777 (current). This group gave me a piece of an important foundation that provided skills and opened doors that otherwise would not have been available. Excellent video that reflects well on the Air Cadet League of Canada. Congratulations to Rick Mercer and for heavens sake, someone send him a red knob!

I have literally been THERE, done that. We used the winch launch at times back in the day. Thanks Rick!

as a fomer Cadet myself it's nice to see Rick out and about with them

This was great, thanks for using our music!

I was at netook like two weeks before staffing gt. good times.

Found this video while my Son was taking his 1st flight with Jet Squad 768 yesterday! Awesome! 👍👍👍😀🚀

I did my Glider at Rivers, Manitoba in 1975 and my Power in Edmonton in 1977. Now reaching the end of a 43 year career as a pilot having flown 51 aircraft varieties and just under 25 thousand hours total time. Thanks Air Cadet Leaque of Canada.......you gave me a headstart in a fantastic career! And Rick, I worked with your brother at Air Atlantic too.

Crap these guys are loaded. All we have for gliding is a winch. Trust me, it's a lot more fun than it sound.

706 Ottawa Snowy Owl and 872 Kiwanis-Kanata. Anyone that's watching this... Join cadets. There is literally nothing to lose and A LOT to gain. Giving it a try doesn't hurt at all. Nice pick for a episode Rick :) Now come flying with us in Griffons :) ~F/SGT Esman

This is weird. When gliding, we never wear C1 or C2...

Excellent! Please do also videos with the Navy and the Army Cadets!

he should have tried the winch in vulcan, up 1000 feet in 40 seconds

Netook is my Cadets' RGS and it is truly an awesome place. I recognize a few faces in this video, glad they got to fly one of the funniest Canadians there is.

And I've flown Porter??? wink wink hahahahaha laughing so hard. thanks again Rick.

I was just up at Netook a few weeks ago. I joined the air cadets when I was 15 and have really enjoyed everything we've gotten to do and the places I've gone with the program. We even went to Maelstrom Air Force base in Montana last year. Things just keep getting better!

I miss being in air cadets. Retired WOII from 538 Buffalo

I'm in the Royal Canadian Air Cadets. I've been with my squadron for 2 years and I've never been gliding. Every time I'm supposed to go, there's always bad weather and it sucks.

My 2Lt showed us this while I was at a cadet seniors meeting Its awesome see the wonderful gliders on National Tv!

Freaking Awesome!!!! AIR CADETS..... Best program out there!

I remember this day very fondly such a fun day and even though he did the boring launch. winch is where it’s at

I'm an air cadet, 5 Cyclone SQD, and I'm going gliding tomorrow. so excited!!

Best part of gliding is getting the push back to the launch point and watching all your friends do the hard work!

Bravo Zulu Netook and a big thanks to the RMR for highlighting teens doing positive things!

364 Lancaster squadron :) - I love Air Cadets. Thanks for doing this Rick!

WOI Dylan Podkowka was the WOI of my three air cadets. WO2 Richards was there as well. It was a great team and those kids really grew and developed into wonderful adults. Good times for all.

that's what my experience has been :)

Went gliding there when I was at ACSTC Penhold. Great memories!

I did this back when I was an Air Cadet. Really fun.

This is typical aviator humor.

My friends convinced me to join the air cadets. I hated it but my mom said I couldn't quit before 12 months. Looking back it was actually a pretty good experience. I wouldn't say it was worth the many hours of just marching around a school gymnasium every week, but the lessons were good.

nice video, nothing like the tranquility of gliding...

As an F-18 Flight Sim Tech w/ 1900 hrs+ Sim time, who gave 1000's of tours to Cadets in Bagotville. PQ & Baden Soelingen, Germany, during 7 & a half yrs in Sim, I must say - the glider flight as a passenger like Rick had was one of the highlights of my life! I also had 3.5 hrs in the real F-18 w/ in-flight refueling, I bungy jumped a 179 ft crane over land in Paris as the Concord took-off, flew a SeaKing, sailed on HMCS Preserver, swam in the middle of the Atlantic. Now I'm just bragging... :)

735 Firebird SQD and I love every minute of Air Cadets!

One of the reasons why i love being an aircadet!

Well, it's safe if you ignore the duct tape holding the body together! Oh, and the load bearing paint! Awesome segment! Air Cadets made me a dork in a blue uniform. But I dork in a blue uniform who can fly an air plane!

LOL he's fixated on the red knob. SOOO funny !

I spent 6 years in air cadets the best years of my life

The party where Rick keeps asking if he can pull the red knob...... Reminds me of King Julien in Madagascar 3.

I would have done a hammerhead just 'cause. Plus the view from the front when you do those is just cool.

I just got promoted to Sargent 2 days ago. Cadets is lit

Well, I'm proud to say I'll be heading to Comox Air Force Base this summer to do just that!

This is now 10 years old and i wonder how many of these kids went on to become pilots in the CAF...

God I freaking miss gliding! and cadets in general.

I live not more than 5 miles south of netook. The summer before the last, I got my glider license as a sgt of 185 olds. I was going to get accepting to power this recent summer, but then 2020 happened. Hopefully next summer will work out. I really just want to get behind FQMH out at netook again. GMOG us cool and all, bit there is something really smooth about the bungee trim. I am now a WO2, recently promoted and im just waiting for transport the certify me as per federal standards and nit just "as per A-CR-CCP-242-PT005" as it says in my logbook.

Awesome, I got to do a glider ride in Netook 2 years ago and this year I will be getting my glider wings in Gimli! (:

Awesome!

That was a nice landing

Beauty.

170 St James parent committee love the video thanks to the cadets for making my Fri nights a hoot YOUR THE BEST

I was an Air Cadet, but my focus was PNRT/Cheer Leading :)

I’m joining soon I’m excited

Essentially yes. But from what I understand, CAP is fully run by the US Forces. Here in Canada, its part forces, part civilian (Air Cadet League of Canada)

LOL the downside to flying commercial is you can't do any fun things in the air.... some passengers wouldn't like the idea... some of us would though. Landing in a thunder storm in Wpg was fun (when I was a cadet). That was in a 727, it got a little light in the plane when we were coming in. Taking off out of Regina last summer was fun to (737) won't say short field take off, The look on my son's face was priceless.

cool video man

i saw this right after i went there as a cadet from 781 calgary

I love flying. :)

The one upside of air cadets, I was in sea cadets and all I learned were tying knots and setting up a sail. Lol. But I love the sea, though I wish I did air cadets for the license.

No flame war between Air and Army cadets. lol FTW!!

Someday I will have that plane... :D

Spent 3 years with 395 squadron. Got to fly in gliders and even co-pilot small cessas. Simply amazing experience. Regret leaving :(

I spent 2 years in the Cadet program. I only left because it's schedule prevented me from joining my schools basketball team.

Dylan Podkowka is now a flight instructor at RGS (NW). He's 2Lt I think. I was there this year, it was really fun!

no I never did that. I did the instructor course in Trenton way back in the day and that was 7 years ago lol

I am thinking about doing a kick ass recruiting video for the army cadets.

no, they'll be taught first and then get airborne which is AMAZING!!!!

1:37 of course he's crazy about the whole package he's a Warrant Officer 1st Class. (I was a cadet for two years, only went gliding once)

510 lions , glider and power , a family , meaning , a path to education, don't underestimate how many people have used cadets like the military as a means to succeed

No i saw the parachute. I could tell it was para also by the way the wings were pointed. glider/power wings point up, but the para wings point down. and i was at most 1m from him.

"feel free to shut-up" LOL

Cool video, I`m apart of Army Cadets.

The Kings ;)

Im a 724 midland lions cadet and we were supposed to go gliding yesterday but it was to windy so they took us up in the tow planes instead

loved gliding back in the day with 641 squadren but we used a truck not a plane to get airborne fun times

I like how they let him go to a glider course and a pre para course, but they knew something bad would happen if they set him loose on power pilot or para

Woooooo! 533! Zarft is AWESOME!

I was a Air Cadet in 58 Air Squadron in Kingston Ontario WHOO WHOO

Way to go Rick! Were you ever a part of the cadet movement, when you were young?

Weird... my cadet corp was 396! Also woooohooo gliding

MOG, Mother Of all Gliders

Come with the army cadets Rick!

Ah, the good ol' days. Side note, Rick's pilot reminds me of my former Chief!

Really depends on the pilot and the cadet. I usually assess the cadet after the release when I demo basic controls. If I can tell he/she was paying attention and I am confident that the cadet won't put us into a spin, I let cadets try the controls.

I WAS IN A GLIDER TODAY!!!!