ORIGINAL: OlsenRrrc
I am just finishing my second XL.
The first one lasted about 30 seconds aftyer takeoff.
Oth downwind leg the hatch came off hit the left rudder and stab, broke the joint at that point.
The stab held on to the right side until about a foot off the ground, then it left the formation.
The landing was hard, but none of the good stuff was damaged.
You know the stuff like the AMT 280 and all the radio equipment.
You can,t get mutch luckier.
The new one has the hatch screwed on.
well as you can remember
there was an very early warning about the hatch BEFORE it came on the market
i have tested the 2 first production xl,s and i lost also the canopy on one of them.
so alan decided to write a small document to put the screw there in the first place.
so if it happened to you , you did not get the message..