FAA to ground 80% of Glider Training Fleet... it's just a question of when

On 6/04/2013 13:38, Eric Greenwell wrote:
On 4/5/2013 7:41 AM, Bill D wrote:
The only things I would change are convenience items like wing hard
points for one-man assembly tools and maybe some hand grips to help
lever a creaky old instructor out of the back seat. I think quick
and easy rigging/de-rigging is important for those without a hangar.

How about rigging or retrieving from a farm field? The wings look big
and heavy, and so does the fuselage.

Quite right, Eric, K21s are heavy. Unlike prepregs however, they are
also quick, cheap and not technologically challenging to repair. The
insurance premiums are commensurate with that.

In over 50 years of aviation, I've yet to see a training aircraft so
robust that repairability wasn't important. (However, I've never seen a
2-33 so I may be wrong...)

GC