Looks as if the Kirby Cadet III has a lot to answer for, in my case a first solo at HCGIS Detling in 1952, followed by a C course the next year with D***k P****tt as one of the instructors. First power solo at Redhill on April 24th 1953 in a Magister (complete with Gosport tubes), followed by first Tiger Moth solo, June 24th, 1954 at Croydon (of blessed memory), where a few years earlier I’d cycled to the spectators’ enclosure to watch Lancastrians, impressed BEA Ju. 52/3Ms, Ansons, Consuls and Rapides, when Croydon saw almost all of London's air traffic. Radio?? What's one of them...?