Is'nt the new look magazine unreal,but I must say I was a little disturbed by the Presidents article on our ageing glider fleet. For starters my club had a plan to fly our blanik for at least its 3750 hours, which would have put somewhere near 60,000 dollars in our bank account, but thats not to be, and it would seem that, having had that taken away from us, we are now going to be paying more to GFA for AEF's aswell, where will it all stop. And as for nice new plastic gliders, I have seen some fairly shabby looking examples of them aswell, and the maintenance for me doesnt change from plastic, wood or metal, I do the same job on them all . It does'nt matter what its made from or how old it is, an inspection is an inspection. And on the subject of ageing aircraft, I noticed in CASA's booklet on ageing aircraft, GFA didnt get a mention, and we are probably leading the field in old aircraft and how to maintain them, something I think we should be proud of.... So I guess what will happen is all the little clubs will disappear, and all the big clubs will be left to cover the ever increasing costs of GFA and all the people who know how to maintain sailplanes will disappear aswell.I assume flarms will become extinct as there wont be that many gliders left flying.So I guess this means the end of the horse drawn zeppelin... regards JR PS sorry the humour content is low, but...... it happens
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