"Superdoof" wrote in message
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The answer to your question is to put everything else out of your mind that
does not involve flying the aircraft. Fly the plane! With one notable
exception that comes quickly to mind (Katana), your plane will fly just fine
with the canopy open (or gone).

Actually, canopies are dangerous things. They tend to be very expensive, and
tend to not be "idiot proof". That is, if the pilot fails to check the security
of the canopy before flight, it might fly open on takeoff, a really bad time for
a pilot to be distracted! I keep a file of glider canopy accidents. Some
involve fatalities.



--
Vaughn


Nothing personal, but if you are posting through Google Groups I may not receive
your message. Google refuses to control the flood of spam messages originating
in their system, so on any given day I may or may not have Google blocked. Try
a real NNTP server & news reader program and you will never go back. All you
need is access to an NNTP server (AKA "news server") and a news reader program.
You probably already have a news reader program in your computer (Hint: Outlook
Express). Assuming that your Usenet needs are modest, use
http://news.aioe.org/ for free and/or http://www.teranews.com/ for a one-time
$3.95 setup fee.


Will poofread for food.