On Apr 9, 9:22 am, "Mike Yankee" wrote:
DG... has spent to date about EUR 10,000 to do the required testing.

Are we supposed to be impressed that DG spends this on the fleet?
That is less than it would cost to ship, inspect and repair a single
US-based glider!

A quick clarification to my original cost translation after carefully
re-reading the original German post:

The inspection is estimated at EUR 6000 per glider. If a repair is
deemed necessary it can easily reach EUR 5000 PER MAIN SPAR. Since a
glider has 2 wings with 2 spars we'd end up with a worst case scenario
of EUR 16000 per glider and a potential total of some 376 main spars
affected in a fleet of some 500 gliders (initial test showed 3 out of
8 main spars defective).

So the potential total costs for the entire fleet would be:

- Inspection: 500 gliders in service x EUR 6000 per
inspection = EUR 3,000,000
- Repairs: 376 main spars (3 out of 8) x EUR 5000 per
repair = EUR 1,880,000
- Total (without any related costs) = EUR 4,940,000
(approx. USD 6,521,000)

Also note that DG's owner apparently just added some comments below
the original posting related to the considerable discussion going on
especially in German forums.

The extended DG posting: http://www.dg-flugzeugbau.de/holm-dg300-e.html

For those of you who know some German here a link to the discussion on
one of the main forums:
http://www.segelflug.de/cgi-bin/wwwt...oard=Flugzeuge

The pictures DG's owner (Friedel Weber) refers to in his comments can
be found he

http://www.segelflug.de/cgi-bin/wwwt...5&o=#Post65186

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