Relief Tube Housing - Unsafe

I pulled the seat pan in my Ventus 2 for the first time to find the
relief tube housing to be a 10 inch long sharp ended aluminum tube
epoxied to the bottom of the fuselage. Needless to say if you have
one of these in your glider I encourage you to get rid of it ASAP. I
would hate to see what this would do in a hard landing. I cut mine
off a few inches off the bottom and installed a flexible vinyl tube to
replace the aluminum one. Not sure where this one was installed, but
I believe when the glider was in the UK.


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