Hi Beagle,
Could it be that part of the confusion had to do with the fact that there was no 'civil' variant of the Vigilant and that this lead to some unclarity whether the hours done on those would count as motorgliding or group A?
Not affected by this either way as I had to pay for all my flying myself but can imagine that people would be seriously miffed if they found out that they could have saved themselves some hours at say £100 a go.
FD