Smoking, etc. in cockpit

On Aug 14, 10:52*pm, Frank Whiteley wrote:
On Aug 14, 8:01*pm, Martin Gregorie
wrote:

On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:52:58 -0700, Frank Whiteley wrote:
Worth repeating. *Many years ago in the UK, a Std Cirrus pilot
apparently dropped his lighter into the front of the cockpit, undid his
straps to recover it, and PIO'd himself out through the canopy.
Parachute worked though.

I recall a similar story-Cirrus pilot dropped his screwdriver while
adjusting TE for a vario.




Did this happen more than once or is it apocryphal?

I ask this because Martin Simons describes an almost identical event at
Waikerie around 1971. See "Sailplanes 1965-2000" page 147.

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martin@ * | Martin Gregorie
gregorie. | Essex, UK
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Can't say. *Related to me in the late 1970's as a UK incident, but
maybe the provincials still consider OZ part of the empire;^)

Frank