Flight Design has issued a  Mandatory Safety Alert (SA) issued December 19, 2013.  For Fuel Injected CTLSi aircraft.

This Safety Alert requires you to determine, by reference to engine type – Rotax 912iS, if your aircraft has been affected. Detailed information is available on the Flight Design webpage: http://www.flightdesign.com/index.php?page=service, as contained in SA-ASTM-CTLS-04/ SA-LTUL-CTLS-04 documents. This Flight Design SA requires verification of ground wiring Lane A connection to regulator of Lane A prior to next flight. This verification may be done by the Owner / Operator. If your aircraft is not affected, this must be noted in the logbook that the SA is complied with by non-affectivity due to presence of non-conformance. For affected aircrafts, full compliance with SA-ASTM-CTLS-04/ SA-LTUL-CTLS-04 must be carried out and so noted in the logbook.

If you have a CTLSi and did not get an alert Email Please  go to our Contact us to be sure we have the correct email address.

Flight Design has made the Rotax ASB explicitly applicable to all  the Flight Design aircraft types

the following link is to the Flight Design Bulletin.

(Reminder: Continued airworthiness regulations require the owner / operator to check for applicable Notifications frequently, considering airframe and all installed equipment manufacturer information!).

As per our production documentation, none of the engines installed ex factory is affected by the Rotax ASB. With this, our Safety Alerts require mandatory inspection of the aircraft only, when the engine has been exchanged after delivery of the aircraft from the factory, as only this way an affected engine could have been installed to the aircraft.

The original publication of the Rotax documents is available using the following links:

ASB affecting the Type Certified engine versions:

  Alert Service Bulletin ASB-912-062 R1 / ASB-914-044 R1, March 05, 2013
  Link: http://www.flyrotax.com/portaldata/5/dokus/d05638.pdf

ASB affecting the Ultralight and ASTM standard compliant engine versions:

  Alert Service Bulletin SB-912-062UL R1 / SI-914-044UL R1, March 05, 2013 
  Link: http://www.flyrotax.com/portaldata/5/dokus/d05640.pdf 

The attached SA´s are divided in different files according to the certification basis affected. Please select the documents applicable for your certification basis.

We spent best care in generating these documents to ensure that the information presented is adequate and correct. However, mistakes can never be excluded 100% and individual situations might require adjusted measures. Therefore, in case of any doubt, missing information or if a possible misunderstanding is expected, please do not hesitate to contact us. Our technical team will provide you with fast and direct support.

Recent reports have suggested that there could be a problem with the new

Trutrak Flight Systems  will include the bracket  with all new servos shipped with the current servo arm screw.  This bracket will also be available to all customers with the current servo arm screw configuration as a field retrofit solution.