"Mortimer Schnerd, RN" writes:

Kyler Laird wrote:
My experience is that holding it (close to) closed makes the ride
*much* nicer. I've not had the door pop open when I've been flying
alone. It'd be interesting.

It's pretty much a non-event.

Do you have any relevant experience to support that? The times it's
happened to me I have certainly not enjoyed the instant (external)
shaking of the controls which got worse as the door was allowed to
move freely.

It's annoying, noisy, and sometimes wet. I flew
an Arrow in hard IFR from Key West to Rock Hill, SC once with the damned door
popped open.

Perhaps you're thinking that the Aztec and Arrow have similar airframes.
They don't. (The Seneca is close though.)

--kyler