Doris and I just returned from another funeral, so I missed some email
messages for a few days.
I spoke with the Schempp-Hirth factory and they tell me they have now
checked a fairly large number of Discus and have found no problems.
In the meantime, the German LBA will issue some kind of directive after a
meeting on September 24th.
The obvious prudent course is to not fly any affected Discus models
specified in the following document until after this meeting:
http://www.lba.de/dokumente/ad/2003-266-e.pdf
Schempp-Hirth owners may want to sign up for my free newsletter at
www.eglider.org as this is the easiest way for me to communicate with
everyone.
Tom Knauff
Knauff & Grove Soaring Supplies
Julian, Pa
Phone 814-355-2483
"Chris OCallaghan" wrote in message
om...
It appears that a third S-H aircraft has broken up in flight this
season. Rather than giving private assurances/explanations to
individual S-H owners, could someone in-the-know please tell us what
is going on?