Kym,
Contact Nigel Arnott at Boonah/Archerfield. He has the approval to do
the mod and I heard $20000 -25000.
While you're at it paint it yellow instead of the oxidised
aluminium/Stealth grey colour they come in.
Mike
At 08:26 PM 28/02/2011, you wrote:
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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