from Wombat:
"Since Schneiders no longer exist as a company I am presuming their
type certificates are held by either CASA or GFA... either way we pay
for maintaining them through our subs, and would probably have to pay
more if some private individual had obtained the TCs fifteen or twenty
years ago. I doubt Mr Eckey would have the capacity to fund them for
investigating ongoing Service Difficulty reports."
My understanding is that the CASA payments and the work by gliding
volunteers over decades which created MOSPs was about creating
precisely that ability for on-going service of sailplanes as a parallel
path to manufacturers.
It was in anticipation of not having to rely on specific organisations
by giving a route for spreading knowledge and skills across the entire
sport.
The success of this approach has been proven a number of times. Because
Oz tends to get lots of hours onto airframes before this occurs
elsewhere.
So when Europeans said - wood airframes have a max 10 year operating
life in the 1960s; Oz glider pilots were able to say 'bs' and create
MOSP processes which kept them flying
So when East Europeans said - you know L13s only have a 3300hour life,
Oz glider pilots were able to say 'we have L13s with 7000 hours and a
MOSP regime for inspection and maintenance which kept them flying'.
It seems only since we got GFA officers with no corporate knowledge
about how the sport works (and no backbone), that conversations have
become about creating reasons for not going flying.
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