Le mardi 13 mars 2018 13:28:12 UTC+1, a écritÂ*:
I don't get it. How do clubs leverage selling older two seaters for a good price to fund new ones if everyone is doing it? If everyone is on the upgrade path who would pay a high price for ASK-13 to allow the purchase of ASK-21? And where are they now, are there low budget Euro clubs using old stuff?

There is a time window where you can do this. Getting rid of a Ka7 for an ASK13 was a good thing in the seventies, and then you would swap them maybe 15 years later for an ASK21. At that time, in main two-seater in France (the Bijave) had been grounded, so there was a high demand in France for ASK13's.

If you just kept on flying the Ka7 throughout the ninties, you just missed the train (and there are still a lot of clubs in Europe who fly old fleets).. One reason for that is that in order to keep your fleet at an attractive level, you do need some cashflow, and this is tricky when your club is too small, and/or mainly consists of these old guys who think that there is no reason to incrementally change to a decent fleets.