Originally Posted by
POBJOY
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The priority should be to get some suitable airframes into the system so operations can start again.If these are EASA cert then they can come from anywhere and we do not need 100 (20 to start) to get going.
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That is so easy to say and so hard to do. A handful of decent 2-seat gliders come up each year, but I imagine the cadets won't want a hodge-podge of whatever turns up - they will want a fleet. As to new gliders, the lead time on a new K21 is 6-9 months, I have no idea what it is for a Perkoz or a PW6, but I doubt getting 20 airframes in a year is feasible.