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Has anyone experienced a canopy opening mid flight? does it has a detrimental effects on the aircraft control?

Any advise on this would be appreciated..

Regards,
Simbol

You should contact Bill Canino at SportAir and ask - I vaguely remember him mentioning that it would just be a noisy non event but you may want to confirm.

Never happened to me and I am not sure how it would happen since it is positively self locking on S4 at the top of the canopy and handles/locks on both sides of the canopy are there just to immobilize it so it doesn’t rattle.

I had an issue I will find my YouTube link

Simbol wrote: ↑Mon Jan 31, 2022 7:22 am Has anyone experienced a canopy opening mid flight? does it has a detrimental effects on the aircraft control?

Any advise on this would be appreciated..

Regards,
Simbol

I had the latch fail on my tip up canopy on my RV12, it was a non event video below of the flight. Remember first rule fly the plane.



https://youtu.be/WXmbMc04wsk

David wrote: ↑Tue Feb 01, 2022 7:32 pm I had an issue I will find my YouTube link

Oh thanks this will be very useful..

S.