US Air Force buys 19 DG-1000 trainiers

On Mar 24, 3:49*am, Ian Cant wrote:
As a taxpayer, I want to see value for my money. *Under-used AF L-33s did
not give value. *For initial exposure in a modern glider, many more
ASK-21s for the same total price would give much better value

You would not get "many more" ASK-21s for the same price.

I don't know the current list prices, let alone what the USAF is
paying, but when my club bought two DG1000 CLubs several years ago it
was 60k EUR for an ASK-21 or 70K EUR for the DG1000.

If the relative prices have stayed the same you could get 22 ASK-21s
for the same price as 19 DG1000s.

We've had this discussion before here and the only reason anyone could
come up with for preferring the ASK-21 was that they are safer to get
aerobatics wrong in because they have a lot more drag than the DG1000.

Most of the rest of us prefer less drag :-)