if you look at the other disasters that have marred the cadet experience in the last decade - 85% reduction in annual camp places, the effective loss of shooting on many Sqn's due to changes in the regulations, massive hurdles placed in the Adventure Training arena, powered flying taking the same dive as gliding in many regions, the RAF divorcing the VR(T) branch - and doing so with a great deal of dishonesty and incompetance - you might well think that the RAF was conducting a policy of deliberate decline of the ATC....