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Old April 5th 13, 11:37 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Evan Ludeman[_4_]
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Default FAA to ground 80% of Glider Training Fleet... it's just aquestion of when

On Friday, April 5, 2013 6:25:47 PM UTC-4, Dave Nadler wrote:
On Friday, April 5, 2013 6:16:21 PM UTC-4, Evan Ludeman wrote:

PW-6 base price $70K-ish....


At these numbers, personally, I'd be for digging in the pockets


a little harder for the '21.




Evan, doesn't the PW-6 Wally was flying Saturday belong

to your club ? Is the club unhappy with it ?



See ya, Dave "YO electric"


Walter's PW-6 belongs to Walter and he seems to like it quite a lot. My club (lately) is Post Mills. We have an L-13 (argh) and a 2-33. For a season we rented a very crappy L-23 from GBSC (I wouldn't fly it, it didn't pass my pre-flight), then it was offered to us for only $35K and we said "No". Our airport is small enough that take off performance is a serious concern.. We've ruled out G-103s, DG-anything on this basis. A K-21 might work, a Puch might work, a PW-6 might work. However our numbers say "used" not new. I don't have enough experience with the PW (one flight) to have much of an opinion.

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