I read that the UAS scheme now aims to get a student to solo standard before the end of their second year.....
It was always my aim to get my students (who arrived in the New Year) to have finished their circuit consolidation before their first Summer Camp - so that I didn't have to sit watching them from the control tower. I always managed that!
But
2 years to solo?
Still, I suppose it gives them more time for all that playing pongoes stuff they seem to do these days....
Will the UAS scheme survive? Who knows - but I gather that there's an 'option' paper in draft. So I wouldn't bet on it.