DG-300/303 owners...

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?

Regards,

John "XLT"

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

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

Hi Bob,

On 17 Apr 2007 16:58:55 -0700, wrote:

Andreas, do you own a DG-300? If not maybe you'd like to buy mine.

Thank you for your kind offer, but I (respectively my club) already
own 2 DG-300...

.... and the pilots who fly them regard stories about 18.000 ft cloud
base and difficulties of staying below Vne as science fiction.

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.

I have no idea about the situation of ELAN - but I'm pretty sure that
their product liability has expired.
Bye
Andreas

Andreas Maurer wrote:
Hi Bob,

On 17 Apr 2007 16:58:55 -0700, wrote:

Andreas, do you own a DG-300? If not maybe you'd like to buy mine.

Thank you for your kind offer, but I (respectively my club) already
own 2 DG-300...

... and the pilots who fly them regard stories about 18.000 ft cloud
base and difficulties of staying below Vne as science fiction.

What, you've never worried about the lift being too strong? You need to
come west!



Shawn

On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:31:47 -0600, Shawn
wrote:


What, you've never worried about the lift being too strong? You need to
come west!

At the moment I keep my hopes upon global warming....


Bye
Andreas

Andreas Maurer wrote:
On Wed, 18 Apr 2007 09:31:47 -0600, Shawn
wrote:

What, you've never worried about the lift being too strong? You need to
come west!

At the moment I keep my hopes upon global warming....

Nevada-like weather in Germany? I don't think even Al Gore could go
that far. ;-)



Shawn

On Apr 18, 4:40 am, Andreas Maurer wrote:
Hi Bob,

On 17 Apr 2007 16:58:55 -0700, wrote:

Andreas, do you own a DG-300? If not maybe you'd like to buy mine.

Thank you for your kind offer, but I (respectively my club) already
own 2 DG-300...

... and the pilots who fly them regard stories about 18.000 ft cloud
base and difficulties of staying below Vne as science fiction.

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.

I have no idea about the situation of ELAN - but I'm pretty sure that
their product liability has expired.
Bye
Andreas

Andreas,

I was only trying to make light of a difficult situation. The DG-300
is still a nice glider. It's just not as nice as it was 10 days
ago.

... and the pilots who fly them regard stories about 18.000 ft cloud
base and difficulties of staying below Vne as science fiction.

The airport we fly out of here is at 6,200 feet, about 1.900 meter.
On a good summer day the cloud base can be at 20,000 feet, 6.100
meter. That is only sometimes but 16,000 isn't unusual. It's the
high desert and sometimes you can go pretty fast. The science fiction
is more down by Roswell.

Bob

I was only trying to make light of a difficult situation. The DG-300
is still a nice glider. It's just not as nice as it was 10 days
ago.

But much more affordable.

Tony V.