Our companies were some of the first in Canada to go to Carbon/Glass built aircraft, both myself and others took some pretty extensive courses on repair and maintenance of these structures before we took delivery of the aircraft,having said this we sent any major work to a company which was in this field repairing gliders since these materials first came into service, however, other operators failed to develop relevant skills and Transport Canada were, {and maybe still are}way behind, most inspectors knowing little or nothing about the subject, this caused us much grief when dealing with TC. We, in retirement have gone the other direction now, being involved in vintage wood/fabric aircraft and are finding that the skills needed to keep them safe is also in short supply today.Step one to solve the Cadet mess must involve setting high standards and training for those involved in maintaining/fixing these aircraft, without this being done nothing will change!
Last edited by clunckdriver; 9th Feb 2016 at 13:16.