By the 1950s, the PPL course was looking rather more like it does today, as far as I can tell from a very patronising tome aimed at "air minded youngsters" called "Come Flying With Me" (the cover shows a flight of Piston Provosts about to strafe Cranwell). I assume that it was updated soon after the War. Earlier, there was no QXC, as student pilots could not fly further than three miles from a licensed aeroodrome.