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Old 25th Dec 2015, 12:25
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A and C
 
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Why oh why ?

So let's look at the facts, a company put in charge of maintaining a glider / motor glider fleet has its authority to fly the aircraft withdrawn, this is a huge failure in that they have been proven unable to supply serviceable aircraft to the customer.

The customer has given the recovery of the of the Viking fleet to another company who have a track record with other GRP aircraft fleets.

The Vigilants you say are being recovered by the original contractor with help from a company that is a specialist in heavy metal aircraft and who have very few staff remaining from the GRP aircraft MANUFACTURING company they took over.

Why am I not filled with confidence ?

No one would be more pleased than me to see the cadets back in the air but it is only industry capacity that has allowed the company that has failed spectacularly to forefill it's contract be involved with recovering these aircraft to flying status.

Interestingly the current company has had the VGS support contract renewed for a year, this has allowed the MoD a little more time to get tenders for the continuing support over the next ten years, I think that the RAF/MoD will be thinking very carefully about what they will ask for in the contract and if a company with the track record of the current contract holders are the right people to support air cadet gliding into the foreseeable future.
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