Hello Ian, I may not have time to get there, but I intend to try & undercarriage legs are definitely one of the discussion items. I will be in touch before I go.
Regards, JGV. Regards, JGV. Please note my new e-mail address as of 23 Feb 2007: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------ The Gliding Federation of Australia Inc. invites you to visit the web site www.gfa.org.au <http://www.gfa.org.au/> newcomers to gliding and soaring are invited to visit www.soaring.com.au <http://www.soaring.com.au/> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------- This email transmission may contain confidential or privileged information that is intended only for the individual or entity named in the email address. If you are not the intended recipient, please be aware that any disclosure, copying, distribution or reliance upon the contents of this email is strictly prohibited ________________________________ From: Ian Mc Phee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 20 June 2008 8:48 AM To: DOG LIST; STO Airworthiness; Daffyd Llwellyn Subject: Diamond + undercarts h36 and hk36 Yesterday I had a good look at a tricycle HK36 Katina which has a new undercart and on examination it looked very much a Grove undercart and the owner confirmed it was except you can not buy it from Grove direct but must buy from Diamond in Austria My point is if they make them for HK36 Super Dimona why don't they make them for the std Dimona h36. Grove undercarriages are fully certified replacements for Cessna 150, C172 and Pitts etc so they must know what they are doing. I can say with Diamond Aircraft the Spare parts manager is Phill Shanks and he is from Canada and speaks perfect English. One day when the Left hand of Diamond and the right hand of Diamond did not know what they were doing I emailed Phill a bit annoyed and within the minute he phoned me back explaining all and saying he was sorry which was great. We all know how hopeless the fibreglass legs are on the present undercart of h36 and why in hell to they persist in sending out such rubbish I will never know. I am going to give one last try to get Diamond to wake up to them selves (others give them a serve if you wish) and if that fails see what we can do with getting a Grove undercart approved here in AUS I would suggest hk36 owners measure up their undercart exactly and match this up with Grove special order form on their web site and then get a quote - you will find replacement is <$US2000!!! and buy from there if it ever fails - Probably it will never fail so you might never get the chance!!!!! I got a quote within 24hrs from Grove for a guess at the h36 cart and it came in at about $US1700!!!! Better than that glass thing at $10K!!!!! Many of my friends use Grove and they are totally happy with them. Come on Diamond A/c get up to date I say. Bye Ian McPhee (PS John V I believe you may soon visit factory well please give it to them about that GRP thing they make and why do they say if you want to repair the undercart it must come back to them and they will not release the present layup - we have some very good fibreglass people in AUS)
