Here is an idea. Forget the MOD/RAF/ACO. Go commercial and get sponsorship from business (big business) to fund an alternate organisation for the youth of the country to get airborne gliding again. There are lots of you out there (former VGS now by the look of it). Many of you will have good contacts in the commercial world. There is nothing quite like competition to embarrass the people responsible for the current debacle. The commercial world might just leap at the opportunity to invest in the youth of the country? So there is the challenge - sadly not for me anymore - but someone out there might just see a vision?