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Old May 26th 17, 07:28 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Duster
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On Friday, May 26, 2017 at 11:57:40 AM UTC-5, Karl Kunz wrote:
There are reports of "unexpected release" and "failure to release" for the Tost release as well, how do the two compare? Anything mechanical is prone to failure so to say the Schweizer is worse than any other release without some type of statistical analysis is kind of meaningless.


Isn't this a purview of the SSF? Burt Compton has responded to this thread and serves on its board. While he specifically stated he did not represent the SSF in this matter, perhaps you could request the Foundation look into the history of this problem to get those stats?
Mike