When do you think aircrafts are to old to fly?
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When do you think aircrafts are to old to fly?
When do you determine that an aircraft needs to be stored or scrapped? Cause I see alot of aircrafts on here scrapped at like 100 hours? I guess its personal opinon? Just wanted to know.
Re: When do you think aircrafts are to old to fly?
I personally only scrap my aircraft if when i come to sell them (when i want a change) they are on the market for 6 weeks without being purchased
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Re: When do you think aircrafts are to old to fly?
There is no such thing as "too old" on this network. The way maintenance works here, the overall life is unlimited. The only reason that most get scrapped around that time is the VA either dissolves, they try to sell it and it doesn't sell so they scrap it, or they just scrap it instead of selling it. Why they sell/scrap it varies, but usually it's because they've decided they want to do something different with their VA. This happens a lot with new VA's for a while and then once they get established, they tend to stabilize and you see aircraft with much longer "lives".
