Originally Posted by
Shaft109
Why sooooooo long to get the show back on the road?
No club or private owner would dither like this - people would be sacked if this were a commercial operation.
Vigilant and Viking are as simple as it's possible to get - their composite design is now 30 years old so the expertise exists to check and fix them - so I can't buy the argument they are more complex than they look.
Why?
But they are high performance types which Air Cadets don't need; they just need an aircraft to teach cadets to safely do a solo circuit in the shortest time. Don't forget, with Vigilants, the trainees weren't even taught how to taxy them, the instuctor would line it up on the runway then jump out and the cadet would just take off, fly a circuit and land.