DG Service Agreement

If someone can come up with an ethical way for DG to make needed
income in servicing older Glaser-Dirks and Rolladen-Schneider
sailplanes, I am quite sure the DG would be most appreciative.
Yes, I am serious.
Should they charge more for parts? More for shipping and handling?
Charge for consultation? Engineering?
Sailplane parts from other manufacturers have never been cheap.
Can we pay more?
The present exchange rate is awful.
How much more should we expect to pay?

Bob Gaines aka GA
800 owner

Bob,

Weber goes through all of this on the DG web site. The English version
is slowly being translated, and you can read his thoughts he
http://www.dg-flugzeugbau.de/betreuung-e.html

The German version has much more information, and you can read a
machine translation of it he
http://translate.google.com/translat...ml&sl=de&tl=en

If you read the translated German version under "looking to the
future" he states that doing anything other than charging everyone is
"fantasy". It's also instructive to read the section "a personal
note", where essentially he says that DG was going to implement the
service contract slowly, but since people were mean to him he decided
to speed it up. There is also some discussion in there about other
options, but that he wasn't going to consider them.

-John

PS - a lot of this is being discussed under the "LS and DG Tax" and
"Monster" threads on RAS.

glider wrote:
If someone can come up with an ethical way for DG to make needed
income in servicing older Glaser-Dirks and Rolladen-Schneider
sailplanes, I am quite sure the DG would be most appreciative.
Yes, I am serious.
Should they charge more for parts? More for shipping and handling?
Charge for consultation? Engineering?
Sailplane parts from other manufacturers have never been cheap.
Can we pay more?
The present exchange rate is awful.
How much more should we expect to pay?

Bob Gaines aka GA
800 owner

On Dec 23, 10:51*am, glider wrote:
* *If someone can come up with an ethical way *for DG to make needed
income in servicing older Glaser-Dirks and Rolladen-Schneider
sailplanes, I am quite sure the DG would be most appreciative.
*Yes, I am serious.

Bob, I know you mean well. But Herr Weber has demonstrated to my
complete satisfaction that he does not want, nor does he deserve,
either my help nor my respect.

Thanks again, and best regards

Bob K.
http://www.hpaircraft.com