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.
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