What to do if the canopy opens during flight ?

On Sat, 16 Aug 2008 21:35:10 -0400, Morgans wrote:

I have a picture of an air nail gun powered roofing nail going in and back
out the other side of my thumb.

Ouch!

But it could have been worse:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...fetyatwork.jpg


--
Dallas

"Dallas" wrote

Ouch!

But it could have been worse:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v1...fetyatwork.jpg

Yeowser! That one is hard to imagine. It must have involved using the gun
over your head, firing it towards the face, and the safety was pressed by
the edge of the wood, but the nail was not over the wood.

How do I come to that conclusion? I did the same to my hand, one time.
Those are the only two times in all the hours of using nail guns that have
gotten me "nailed." I'm a carpenter by trade, by the by.

The nail in the thumb was really strange. The hose was fouled, so a gave it
a big whip to shake it loose, and as I did, the safety contacted my opposite
hand, but the trigger must have gotten bumped in the process of whipping the
hose. Kinda' stupid, but most accidents are. :-(
..
Anyway, did you manage to get the door shut when you cut your finger? I
suppose you turned around and went for medical attention.
--
Jim in NC

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 01:57:21 -0400, Morgans wrote:

Anyway, did you manage to get the door shut when you cut your finger?

I was a student flying dual with my CFI (ManhattanMan was in the back seat
waiting for his turn to fly). The CFI said he *thought* the door was open
and he gave me the instructions on what to do.

When I opened the window it stayed up, so I used my right hand to pop the
latch while holding the door by the window frame with my left. When I
pushed the door open into the 100 knot slipstream, it came down with equal
force.

Looking back it was predictable, but as a student I was doing everything
the CFI told me to do. The funny part was that I was sure the door wasn't
open.

suppose you turned around and went for medical attention.

Hell no, no pussies on that airplane! We tied it off until my finger tip
was turning blue, then went on to fly for 2 more hours. :- )


--
Dallas

Dallas wrote:
When I
pushed the door open into the 100 knot slipstream, it came down with equal
force.

Lesson learned: don't open the window, push on the interior frame with
your palm flat and vertical and your thumb straight out to the right.

Review required: Parasite drag. :P


TheSmokingGnu