The SGS 2-33 is the next step up from a 'sledburg' - at least it has a canopy!
If we can't afford DG-1000s or we can't get ASK-21s in significant numbers in time then lower tech makes sense if someone will make them. Otherwise, go down the LSA, Microlight or TMG route.
There has to be an AIR in Air Cadets if we are to deliver air minded young people into the UK's work force. We ignore it at our peril...
However, VGS and AEF are massively expensive now we are 'slaves of Haddon-Cave' in the military. So the best way of fixing this at the lowest possible cost is to sit under the National Governing Bodies as Air Cadet air sports clubs. Quite simply Air Cadet flying is too low a priority within the RAF's wider problems of failing infrastructure, manning shortfalls and expensive equipment plans. The sooner we get on with a plan for the rest of the 21st Century, the better for the Cadets - and no that does not mean £25k a pop computer games! There are already air sports clubs around and the Air Cadets could attach suitably qualified air cadet volunteers to those clubs to provide the Cadet flying function - there are 14 RAF Flying Clubs, 7 RAF Gliding Clubs and 1 RAF Microlight Club for starters, but why not attach to any civvy flying/gliding club? Something has to be done as from my viewpoint the VGS return-to-flight has taken over 3 years so far for a very small amount, and I fear still has a way to go, and the AEF appears to be failing to create the flying rate envisaged over a year ago to take up the VGS slack.
LJ