REFLECTOR: Nosegear Forks

[Alex Balic]

yes, but I'll bet that about $5000 of that went to help cover their
liability insurance that Piper has to have- they don't put all of the bill
into the price of the new aircraft to keep them competitive, so they dump it
onto the parts.

-----Original Message-----
From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org]On
Behalf Of Richard J. Gentil
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 5:26 PM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Nosegear Forks


I just had to replace both of the lower Main Gear halves for our Seminole.
(Student had
a hard landing and did not bother to tell anyone. Found it on the 100hr.) My
cost as a
Piper Service Center was $6,000.00 for the pair with Freight from Vero
Beach, FL to
Naples, FL. I do not mind the price Velocity charges for the Nose Fork. ;-)

Richard

Tstockmn at aol.com wrote:

> I've got a FG 173 with 300 hrs and after all the fork discussions, took a
> closer look at mine and found some tiny cracks on each side.   The factory
> quickly sent out a replacement (I paid for it).   I have no problem paying
the token
> amount they charged for the fork.   Take a look sometime at what a similar
> fork costs for a piper or cessna.
>
> bill.
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