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Posted for Kevin Kossi <kevin@airforcemechanical.com>:
"What's to keep the canopy traversing 180 degrees as it departs the aircraft
and slicing off the vertcal stabilizer and rudder?"
When the plane hits the ground, its all in pieces anyway.
I'm going to take some parachute classes to learn the dynamics of jumping
out of a plane without an ejection seat.
The way I see it, the most likely scenario that I will bail is a flat spin,
(hopefully not inverted) In which case from what I have heard from Acro.
pilots that you push yourself away from the plane and pull the shoot.
Another scenario could be ice, in which case I would stall the plane to get
the tail as low as possible, so I don't hit it, and bail.
Loosing your plane in this fashion is a last resort that I hope never to
use, and I know it won’t help if the plane stalls on take-off... (I mean if I
stall the plane).
I choose to keep the front pivoting Canopy because I want to keep the option
of cracking the canopy to ventilate before and after takeoff. I live on the
East Coast and it gets very hot in the summer here.
Kevin Kossi
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