Cadet gliding is hardly in the same league, worthwhile though it undoubtedly is...
When I fist rattled along the A46 in my 100E Anglia, Jet Provost flying at Syerston was in full swing and the station was as busy as most.
But even back in 1978, some 10 years later, the old station looked like a ghost town and was slowly crumbling away...