Re: [Aus-soaring] Release Springs

2004-04-08 Thread Leigh Bunting
Roger Browne wrote: I have a couple of release springs to suit Tost Belly releases.They are Australian made copies and work fine. However the return force is on the high side of the acceptable range. Thanks for that, Roger. I'll bear that in mind if a couple of other local

Re: [Aus-soaring] Release Springs

2004-04-08 Thread Leigh Bunting
Mike Borgelt wrote: Which probably invalidates the Airworthiness Certificate and any insurance you might have certainly if the accident is in any way traceable to the release. Hmmm. I wondered when someone would raise that. It seems that non-original springs are fairly widely used. In fact,

Re: [Aus-soaring] Release Springs

2004-04-08 Thread Ian McPhee
Well have stocked same for years then they stopped me then about 10 years ago they resupplied again but recently stopped again saying they were only to supply to the authorities and in our case that was GFA. I did contact GFA at the time of about changer to John Viney and I gather they were

Re: [Aus-soaring] Release Springs

2004-04-08 Thread Mike Borgelt
At 10:07 PM 8/04/04 +0930, you wrote: Mike Borgelt wrote: Which probably invalidates the Airworthiness Certificate and any insurance you might have certainly if the accident is in any way traceable to the release. Hmmm. I wondered when someone would raise that. It seems that non-original