PS most of us don't wear uniforms or badges at BGA clubs, or salute, or any of the other military things the ATC get up to, plus there seems to be confusion about what the ATC want to achieve at present - an airex flight, or an attempt to teach a cadet to fly. The two are very different, if you don't know what you want to achieve you won't achieve it...
Cats Five,
I have news for you ! In the VGS there has been no such thing as Air Ex, that only occurs in the AEF's on Tutors ! For many years there have been three threads to VGS Cadet training, GIC = Gliding induction Course in three distinct stages teaching effects of controls. Gliding Scholarship = the full training to solo standard, and AGT = Advanced training for Cadets U/T who are Flight Staff Cadets. And finally - no saluting as headgear is banned as a FOD hazard ! Thus we all knew exactly what the standards were, and operated very efficiently to those different criteria.
