But they are high performance types which Air Cadets don't need; they just need an aircraft to teach cadets to safely do a solo circuit in the shortest time. Don't forget, with Vigilants, the trainees weren't even taught how to taxy them, the instructor would line it up on the runway then jump out and the cadet would just take off, fly a circuit and land.
Utter c0ck. Exercise 5- Effects of Controls 2, Engine Start and Taxiing. And at my old sqn, the cadet had to deal with radio calls and a busy GA circuit in a very pretty part of the world with an awful lot of fair-weather flyers and visitors, so SA had to be good too.
Still used to get about a 50% solo rate in under 10hrs, though.