As a former CCF and ATC cadet and, for a short time, a VR(T) officer, I am much saddened by the inability to fly cadets over the last year or so. For all said and done, that what most cadets join for. Otherwise join the ACF, another great organisation. I am, however, still not clear whether the problem has been one of the way the gliders and other aircraft have been maintained, or whether the system of maintenance was not "approved", or the paper trail for each aircraft was not maintained properly. Is a succinct summary possible for the terminally stupid.