Happy memories of when the ATC delivered! Did my time 'backwards' somehow. Flying Schol. on Tiger Moths at Croydon airport summer of 1955. G-ANDE and G-ANEW - both still flying! My ATC squadron didn't seem to do gliding, so I talked myself onto an autumn course at St Athan whilst there at 1956 summer camp. Solo after 10 launches then given the Bedford pick-up to double declutch pulling cables. Reward was a chance for a 'C' licence in a Cadet 3 - which I took. The cadet exchange to Canada the following year convinced me to join up! Oh yes - the ATC delivered.