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What are your recommendations for the recovery of the VGS organisation?
There is no quick fix, BB. I know that answer makes you angry but I can't do anything about that. The VGS fleet is on the UK Military Register. Every aircraft that is on that register is compromised by the UK Military Regulator (aka the MOD, now masquerading as the MAA).
If FB is correct, that the CAA is prepared still to accept ex-military reg'd gliders onto the Civil Register, then perhaps that is the quickest solution. I can't think why they should, unless all the appropriate paperwork is in order, but Catch 22 says if that were the case then what is the problem anyway?
If you want to vent your spleen on someone, then I would direct you to the VSO's who created this mess in the first place, and those who continue to cover it up. Then I would suggest joining the campaign to reform UK Military Airworthiness. How about it?