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Old 11th Mar 2016, 12:40
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It is not a case of vigilant bashing but the facts, the aircraft is a motor glider that has been operated as a powerd aircraft because turning the engine off was prohibited by the VGS.

The result of this is that the fleet has a lot of engine hours on an engine that is no longer supported and so without a very costly engine retrofit the fleet will die.

Far better to sell the aircraft to people who can husband the engine life by using it as a true motor glider while it still has a value and pump the recovered money into other forms of air cadet flying.

This is not vigilant bashing, it's jus being pragmatic.
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