Rebuild for the future
I am going to sit this bit out for the sake of my class 1 medical.
However before i retire my points would be:-
The VGS at the COAL FACE are not finished by a long chalk.
The current locations are where the population is well served.
One of the facets of the Gliding organisation is that Cadets CAN GET INVOLVED on a regular basis.
There is no point in having far less sites in the middle of nowhere (so to speak)
The SYSTEM has to realise it exists FOR THE CADETS not as a training organisation for itself.
In the short term the Viking fleet have a better chance of surviving this debacle as there are far less issues involved, and they have already ordered the new winches. It is also a fact that conventional gliding gives far more hands on activity with the aircraft and operation than the powered route.