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FULL LOTUS INDUSTRIES LTD. "CEASE FLYING" DIRECTIVE

November 19, 1998

TO ALL FULL LOTUS CUSTOMERS:

There have been some isolated reports of Hull Caps, the polymer, zippered-on fore section on the base of the Full Lotus Floats, separating from the float body during taxiing maneuvers. We have not seen this problem before now in the 12 years that Full Lotus Floats have been in use. While these incidents have been isolated to only a handful of pilots amongst a customer base of 1000's of users, it has lead us to conclude that it is critical to create redundancy to prevent the cap from separating from the float body regardless of the circumstances or rarity of the incidents.

Based upon this conclusion, using safety as our sole criteria, we hereby direct all Full Lotus customers to CEASE FLYING THEIR AIRCRAFT IMMEDIATELY. The results of not following this directive could be catastrophic, leading to potential loss of your aircraft and your life.

THE SOLUTION:

Full Lotus Industries Ltd. is committed to seeing that all of our customers are flying on safe floats. To this end we will be delivering (prepaid by surface) to all of our customers a field upgrade kit that will add the required redundancy to protect against Hull Cap separation. The upgrade will take the average owner 6 Hours to complete and can be done with the Floats still mounted to your aircraft.

CONTACT US FOR YOUR KIT:

So many of our customers have changed address since we first shipped them their floats, that we need you to confirm your shipping address by calling us at 604-946-6106. Leave your address with the tape recorded message and we will get the kit out to you immediately with full instructions.

We apologize for the inconvenience this directive will cause all our customers.
DO NOT COMPROMISE YOUR SAFETY BY FLYING BEFORE YOU HAVE IMPLEMENTED THIS UPGRADE.

Sincerely:

Full Lotus Industries Ltd. 

Brenda Phillips
Product Manager

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