Esqual vm1

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MrMorden
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One further consideration: if the airplane ends up on its back, in a high wing you open the door and climb out, in the low wing with a canopy you await rescue. Not a big deal unless you're in a remote farm field somewhere, and/or have a little fuel dripping on your leg from the firewall...
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MrMorden wrote:One further consideration: if the airplane ends up on its back, in a high wing you open the door and climb out, in the low wing with a canopy you await rescue. Not a big deal unless you're in a remote farm field somewhere, and/or have a little fuel dripping on your leg from the firewall...
Yeah, that one actually worries me the most.
I do have two types of devices to help me out - a tomahawk on one side of the plane and a special canopy breaking tool on the other.
If one is capable, breaking out takes only 20 or so seconds but , one could be injured which would complicate things.

It is a risk for sure and I have to live with it .
Flying Sting S4 ( N184WA ) out of Illinois
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As an interested but non-experienced observer, who is in Oshkosh every year checking things out..... my aged carcass can enter and egress a low wing airplane with relative ease - high wings? More like bending body parts that only 'used to be able' to be bent to get in and out - lol.
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chicagorandy wrote:As an interested but non-experienced observer, who is in Oshkosh every year checking things out..... my aged carcass can enter and egress a low wing airplane with relative ease - high wings? More like bending body parts that only 'used to be able' to be bent to get in and out - lol.
A very valid point.
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