My daughter has just left the ATC as senior cadet of her squadron. In her four plus years with them she put in a huge amount of effort and time and represented the corps at hockey and her "wing" at many other sports.
She managed to fly just once. Quite a sad state of affairs.
Absolutely right. But the last four years happen to have been a very turbulent period for cadet flying, with both powered and unpowered flying suspended for much of that time coupled with the cull of AEF pilots. But the green shoots of recovery seem to be appearing, with new AEF pilots being trained...things may never be quite the same again, but the future isn't entirely bleak!