Mark James Boyd wrote:
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I'm pretty happy with the setup at our club. The 'el cheapo
2-33s get students to solo fast. Then the 1-26 adds some variety.
Then the L-13 Blanik shows them spins and some complexity
(since we can train gear and some flap procedures).

Slightly off-topic but...
I'm puzzled why you wouldn't have two Blaniks. Tell students to ignore
the pink and black handles and you have a no-flap, fixed-gear trainer
(if you think that's a good idea). The rest of the world soloes
students from Blaniks about as rapidly as the US does from 2-33s (some
of them even put the gear up and down) and uses them to go further.

Are Blaniks expensive in the US? They sell for the equivalent of about
$US8k here. How does that compare with a 2-33? Could we make a profit
exporting some to you? Low mileage, one careful owner since 1965, only
winched 24,500 times?

The interesting thing is that the Blanik design is about 50 years old,
not 40!

Cheers,
Graeme Cant