Originally Posted by
longer ron
When I was flying at Halton - 613 was the sole gliding user of the airfield (except for occasional glider flights from the 'other' Bessonneau' Hangar/Chipmunk Flight down by the control tower),I would not say they did not encourage gliding - we did lots of training for the cadets which is of course where many of us started gliding/flying but the majority of our flying was more or less just in the circuit.
I also had a fun trip with a CFI doing a practice field landing in a K13 at a civvy club.
It changed then after the Chilterns Gliding Club moved in from Weston and they lost aviation exclusivity. A lot of turf warfare. We had similar at Cosford. For some reason the GS did not get on with the GSA which seemed odd as I thought the GS was there to foster an interest in the RAF. The advent of the red and white motor floaters made things worse in my opinion.