On Tuesday, February 25, 2020 at 1:11:06 PM UTC-6, John Cochrane wrote:
Soaring magazine had an article a while ago summarizing a crash involving a dog in flight. Basically the dog was such a distraction that the pilot didn't notice spoilers open on tow, or off tow, or at all until impacting the ground. It was 1 pilot 1 dog in a 2 place glider. Maybe dog on lap of passenger might work.

John Cochrane BB

It took about 45 seconds to bring up the NTSB aircraft-accident database and search for all reports containing " dog " -- 203 items in 21 pages. No, I've not read them all.

Basically, even a normally well-behaved dog may panic in the strange environment of an aircraft, so dogs, cattle, mice, snakes, spiders, etc. need to be secured in a way that prevents interference with any control or operation of the canopy release or BRS...

Dan Johnson