Interesting, and possibly a very blinkered comment.
Unless I am sadly mistaken, you have no idea at all, just how much the approved
mod is going to cost you, where it might be done, and who can do it.
Gary
----- Original Message -----
From: Kym Z
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
Sent: Monday, February 28, 2011 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] blaniks
To answer your question "4. Is it worth it?": YES.
My club has a Blanik, obviously it is worth nothing but scrap unless it can
fly. It is our only 2 seat glider. Most other 2 seat gliders are too heavy
for our ultralight tug. The club could afford to buy another trainer, and I
suggested affordable options - but it won't, so fixing our existing aircraft is
the only way to keep going. So it is worth up to the value of what our very
nice, low hours Blanik would be worth once it is flyable again.
Kym.
Re Blaniks
The President confirms that the Llewelyn mod for 8 Blaniks is OK, and
should be OK for others provided they are "modified to the full extent of the
STC to L13A1 standard".
Much of this note seems quite premature, given that facilitating "work is
in progress". The three obvious questions that arise are:
1. How much?
2. Who is approved to do the work?
3. Who is actually prepared to do the work?
The first question give rise to a further question;
4. Is it worth it?
My guess is that the answer to the first question is "substantial", to the
second "many", to the third "very few - unless they can make big bucks from
their efforts." and to the last "no".
It all appears to be a bit like the question "Do you want the good news
first, or the bad news first?"
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