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Converting from Capstan to Swallow was not all that easy. The weight difference alone made the handling and performance quite different. T31 to Tutor was a doddle.
The old T31 also had the advantage that on the day when the chap in the back got out and didn't get back in again, the briefing was confined to mentioning that a higher launch was now going to happen, and a 360 or two might be a good idea before joining the downwind leg. One to the right, and one to the left on your second solo, and you had vour 'B' followed later by an expensive round in the 'Tiger Moth' (our local pub). I was the first ab-initio to go solo (in a T31) at our newly formed club in 1964. It was a memorable occasion.