On 22/09/2010 01:23, James Thomson wrote:
The threads on the Blanik AD and Club Training Gliders made me wonder about
the make-up of the UK fleet. A quick search of the UK civil register
produced the following numbers:
ASK13 101 aircraft
ASK21 73
Duo Discus 45
G103 29
Puchacz 27
DG500 22
K7 17
DG1000 10
Blanik L13 9 (plus one L23)
Bocian 8
PW-6 3

This may explain the UK views on training and the grounding of the Blaniks

The Oz figures, from a similar quick look a
Blanik 60
Grob 103 27
IS-28 21
K7 15
K21 15
Puchacz 12
Janus 12
Duo Discus 12
K13 10
KR-03 6
Bocian 6
Orion 4
Bergfalke 4
DG-1000 3
PW-6 2
SGU 2-22 1

This may explain our view about the grounding of Blaniks.

Few of the K7s, Bocian and Duo are used for training.

GC