Greg,

Your quoted comments were from "Mark - B9" - excerpted from my earlier
discussion. Those were not my comments. I do not own a Pegase,
consequently, I have no comment about it, just in case anyone was
wondering.

If I were a type club or a governing body for gliders, I would
certainly have a comment about an AD that mandates a life limit, in
other words an AD that is not addressing an airworthiness issue such as
cracking, corrosion or other failure. This is a life limit issue and
it's very unusual for the FAA to use an AD for this purpose. Life
limits are normally found in TC data sheets or AFM's, etc. In the ACS
that addressed this issue, the FAA themselves stated that this is an
unusual action.

Not that it hasn't happened before, I'm just saying it's unusual. And
that is why someone should have commented on this AD NPRM. I've seen a
few AD's killed in the initial process by comments, so sometimes it
does pay to send in your letters if you are affected.

Jim.