Can you guess what it is??
One tow plane climbs at 800fpm (well at least according to our tugmaster) and the other climbs at 400fpm. One tow plane is insured the other is not. Both have the same engines.
We belong to a club that charges for tows by the minute.
So which tow-plane would you want to get a tow from?
However for some reason the tow charges per minute are the same for both...go figure??
If this policy is not revised than I would suggest we roll PNE to the back of the hanger and take the propeller off it...and sell it (the propeller that is...followed by the wings, the seat, and the flashing lights).
And while I'm at it...
Similiar flawed reasoning is being used to keep the Janus GNN (in the top photo). Four years ago we sold a spare Janus...have we missed it??? Not at all. Why, because we lack the number of members to utilise 4 two seaters. Mostly we lack the instructors to keep 4 gliders in the air at any one time. So what happened when we decided to buy another two seat glider (a Duo no less), and against a background of even less members than 4 years ago???
We decide not to sell the spare two-seater...go figure.
So by Xmas we will have 4 two seat gliders as well as 3 single seat gliders. We have a membership of 50-60 with probably 35-40 active pilots, some of whom own their own gliders.
We will have incurred significant extra debt.
We will have all non-flapped gliders except one...you guessed it - the Janus.
And now I hear we have received an offer to buy our Janus...can I suggest in the strongest possible terms - accept the offer...it won't come again. Especially for a 25 year old glider.
Sell it...sell it now...take the money...save ourselves the fund raising efforts...forget the contorted logic that somehow we can make money out of keeping it...focus on the possible...build enthusiasm for the new glider (although precious little of this has been happening...)...what more can I say...the arguement is persuasive, is it not?
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