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I am being told the same sort of thing.
When I was a CI at an ATC unit I was not a fan of motor gliders as the cadets had to spend most of the day in the Crewroom awaiting their turn to fly, with pure gliding they had to get involved in launching and recovering while waiting to fly. This IMO was a better team building excersise.
To see gliding and power flying clearly split I think is a good thing and I would hope that with more AEF time avalable to cadets I would hope that rather than the six monthly "Jolly" that it is now the AEF could offer a bit more basic flying instruction and building on the flying skills that cadets learn when flying gliders.
While now having little doubt about the technical recovery of the gliders I am finding it a little more difficult to see how the operation is to be staffed without finding a route to get some VGS gliding instructors flying the Tutor.