On Apr 17, 3:14 am, Andreas Maurer wrote:
On Tue, 17 Apr 2007 01:39:59 +0100, John Schaffer

wrote:

I have sent a email to the factory, with no reply.

I am guessing that it would cost me $21K USD to get my wings fixed.

Does anyone have any idea on the cost of new wings from the factory?

Would it be cheaper for me?

How often do you feel the need to fly with more than 450 kg and faster
than 250 kph...?
As long as you don't do that regularly, you can save a lot of money
and simply apply the new restrictions to your airspeed indicator and
POH.

Bye
Andreas

Also, from your April 8 post:

Apart from the max T/O weight (and the prohibition of aerobatics for
the DG-303 Acro) none of this limitations is going to have any
practical influence on aircraft handling, don't you agree?


Andreas, do you own a DG-300? If not maybe you'd like to buy mine.
I'm partly joking and partly serious with that comment. It's still a
nice glider but it's not the glider I bought. Mine is not an acro but
was approved for mild aerobatics and I did those aerobatics. I'll
miss that. Also, I'd like to fly at 9.5 lbs/sq ft. or so sometimes.
525 kg isn't required for that but more than 450 kg is needed. With
450 kg only 9.0 is possible. The reduction in maneuvering speed is
probably a bigger deal than Vne but I know people around here who have
had trouble staying below 18,000 while at Vne. It's not very often
though.

ELAN seems to be the responsible party here. Are they still the same
company? My understanding is they only split off the aviation
division to form AMS but the original ELAN company is still the same.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Bob