Keep up chaps, it's been DBS checks for a while now.
I can't really blame the shrinking of station visits on the ATC organisation, there's a limit to how many visits one RAF Station can handle. Of the 5 Annual Camps I went to in the 1950's, only Kinloss is still an active base.
When at school in Leeds, during the summer holidays I would hitch hike two or three times a week to Church Fenton, Dishforth, Leeming, Topcliffe, or Lindholme, ask for the ATC liaison officer and could usually get airborne in something. (They didn't often say 'Oh no, not you again'.) Times have changed.