I was late to the party for a previous post: "In the event of a forced landing, wood or water?", and will not hear much from a question I poisted in that thread so I wanted to re-ask a question here for your feedback.
My experience has been that it is very difficult or unlikely to be able to egress out out of a tipper canopy equipped -4 if you get flipped over on your back. The canopy sill gives you very little room to slide through even though the canopy may be shattered. I have often thought that I would like try to get the canopy off if I was forced to land in a field (I would leave it on if going into trees for some protection).
What do you all think of that idea?
How would you get the canopy off?
And now for the question that someone must have some experience with: what happens if you do open the canopy at speed (85K.)? Would it tear off and hit the vertical stab? Hang up on the hinges and beat the airplane to smithereens before landing?
Thanks
My experience has been that it is very difficult or unlikely to be able to egress out out of a tipper canopy equipped -4 if you get flipped over on your back. The canopy sill gives you very little room to slide through even though the canopy may be shattered. I have often thought that I would like try to get the canopy off if I was forced to land in a field (I would leave it on if going into trees for some protection).
What do you all think of that idea?
How would you get the canopy off?
And now for the question that someone must have some experience with: what happens if you do open the canopy at speed (85K.)? Would it tear off and hit the vertical stab? Hang up on the hinges and beat the airplane to smithereens before landing?
Thanks