Doors popping open in flight

"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message

I learned to fly in the summer so we always took off with the doors open.
It really helped keep us cooler. I was surprised teh first time I found
out that most pilots close the doors before flight, even when its
not cold.

Really? It's part of the run-up checklist, isn't it?

See if I ever go for a submarine ride with YOU! :

-c

I learned to fly in the summer so we always took off with the doors open
Really? It's part of the run-up checklist, isn't it?

I was flying C140's and Aeroncas. The "runup checklist" was CIGARS.
Strangely, we didn't all die a flaming death contrary to what people
often think today.

-Robert

"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
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I learned to fly in the summer so we always took off with the doors open
Really? It's part of the run-up checklist, isn't it?

I was flying C140's and Aeroncas. The "runup checklist" was CIGARS.
Strangely, we didn't all die a flaming death contrary to what people
often think today.


Lets see, open door in a Beech Sport - noisy but otherwise no big deal. Land
and close it.

Then there was the "sandwich" incident...

My brother and I had been visiting the 'rents and were flying back in a
C-120. Mom, of course, packed us a lunch to take with us. So, I'm hungry,
and I reach behind the seat feel around, come up with a sandwich. Turns out
to be a dry bologna sandwich, bread wasn't that fresh, but whatever... Then
my brother, being the smarter of the two of us, though to actully unbuckle
and LOOK instead of just feeling around over the seat back. A moment later,
he announces "Hey! There's a box of doughnuts back here!". Without even
thinking, I open up the door and throw the sandwich out.

It took a couple tries, but I managed to get the door closed again, then it
occured to me - what was under us when I threw the sandwich out? As luck
would have it, we were over nothing but farms so the sandwich probably just
landed in a field unnoticed. But I've always wondered what someone would
have thought if they had seen two half eaten slices of bread and some
bologna falling out of the sky.

--
Geoff
The Sea Hawk at Wow Way d0t Com
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