ARC
Just a quick word as to the grounding, haven't read the whole thread but i believe i can shed some light onto why they were grounded. Due to the H-C enquiry all military aircraft powered and non powered were required to have a certificate of airworthiness (ARC). Due to this being completely new to the military it required a huge amount of work to achieve this. The military in their wisdom sub contracted a lot of the work out to a civilian company to do the work, unfortunately money was an issue as usual and everything had to prioritised, hence front line aircraft were top of the pile and gliders were at the bottom. Now the front line kit has all but been sorted the gliders are now coming into view again, moves are afoot to have them all inspected and ARC's issued. Once this has been done then everything should be rosy again......should?!?