Originally Posted by
A and C
The Viking recovery program is now in full swing with a long time glider maintenance company working with Babcock.
As with these things the production rate will increase with experience but I would hope to see the VGS starting to get instructors back on line soon.
It was suggested to me at the weekend that my local VGS has lost somewhere in the region of 66% of it's staff during the "pause", so if they ever get their aircraft back, they've got a hell of a mountain to climb a) to get the remaining staff current and b) recruit new staff to make it viable...