PMA: protector tests only on approved test rigs
Paraglider Manufacturers Association
The Paraglider Manufacturer’s Association, the PMA, has appointed an independent engineering bureau to produce an expertise and to scrutinize and compare the protector test rigs of the DHV and the EAPR.
The analysis of the protector test rig of the EAPR has been completed and pronounced “capable to fulfill the task of measuring according to NFL II 35/03 (German airworthiness requirements) with sufficient accuracy”.
The DHV so far has refused to let the independent experts check their protector test rig.
The PMA asks all manufacturers to do protector tests only on approved test rigs, otherwise “the risk might be there, that the results could be questioned and might be declared invalid”.
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