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Hi Guys!
All this talk of canopies has made me think of something that
happened to me
about a month ago. I had taken off & flown north of our local airport to
a lake I hadn't
been over before. When I got there I circled it a couple of times to
check it out for
close by grass strips, buildings along the shore, etc. As I swung back
south to check out
another lake I realized that the the sun was right in my eyes & I had
forgot to grab my
ball cap. (only time I wear a hat is in a plane ....when I remember)
Anyway my arm got
tired shielding my eyes so I switched hands... then that one got tired
too. Sooo.... being raised on
a farm, I improvised. I grabbed a sectional out of my flight bag &
folded it about a foot
square & shoved it up under my headset band to form a beak over my eyes.
I'm sure
that I looked about as stupid as one could imagine, but so what! It
worked very well &
there was no one to see me up there!
I checked out a couple of more lakes & on my way back I flew over a
buddies' strip
so I circled to see if his plane was in the yard. As I looked down at
his yard I noticed
my air speed increasing from the sound of the wind & when I glanced over
to the indicator,
sure enough it showed 115 so I pulled up a bit & it came back down. but
there was still
a fair amount of wind noise so I looked up & zip! There went my map, out
the top.
My head set stayed on though. The canopy on our coupe has no latch but
since we
put the heavy lexan side pannels in, they only creep apart when the air
speed gets over 100 like
had just happened! I tried to see if I could find the map as it dropped
to the ground, Maybe
run it through the prop, but I couldn't see it.
Darwin
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