Binning the VGS
I was always suspicious of what was going on after muddleton got involved. For no good reason Civilians were deemed to be inappropriate to train Cadets in basic flying despite the cogent proof that this service had been one of the safest flying training organisations in the WORLD for decades. The apparent lack of any 'qualified ' persons who had any idea about flying or gliding actually heading up the whole organisation beggars belief, and the Corps has paid a high price for this total lack of capability.
I think it was all part of the grand scheme of things to make Syerston an Aerospace Camp that could also cover the limited gliding facility, and let the expanded AEF flights cover the Cadet flying availability.
This effectively reduced the requirement of a civilian element to zero, and hey presto problem solved.
The rumours surrounding the Vig fleet were numerous, however they all seemed capable of flying away from their normal base's, and the storage facility is not full of wrecks. Amazingly GROB who apparently had no capability to OH their own original engine now are to 'Modify' a portion of the fleet which includes a complete engine replacement (firewall forward) operation.
In fact GROB do not (on paper) have any glider interests anymore as this was sold on to another company. One day the aircraft is an aviation 'orphan' and then suddenly new parents are found !!. One scandal winds down to be replaced by another, and no one has fallen on a sword yet.