Now for the interesting part
You can barely tell on the video but I did have an emergency situation
arise right after I leveled off on the upwind when I was reporting the
ball centered and leveling the wings.
The canopy popped open
Chase kept me square and I FLEW the airplane.
The canopy will rise forward on a tipup to about 45 degrees.
I am 6-4 and could barely reach the handle. The forward vis was
ZERO. Tried pulling G's just to get a better pull on the canopy.
It was missing the holes by a 1/2 inch. Delrin guide blocks
The G's didn't work at all so I flew the pattern and just let go of
the canopy to make power adjustments the grabbed the handle and
held on to it. Really didn't want to rebuild the canopy.
On the downwind abeam the numbers let the canopy go, adjusted the
power to 1800 looked left, Great View no glass, flew base 90-100
turned final.
Now the tricky part. You can see in the video that the canopy rises
up past the tail. OH $%% , That is what I was thinking too.
Get on final and release canopy, Pull to idle, reach back up grab the
canopy so I can SEE, fly low and hold it off till it settles down.
PERFECT
Boomers thought of the day.
LOCK THE CANOPY AND DOUBLE,TRIPLE CHECK THE LATCH.
Hope this will help someone in the future and right above my
latch is this placard:
Do not open latch in flight unless you are leaving.
Wasn't leaving
