Nuthin...assuming that you don't panic or try to
close it in flight by yourself. It floats up about 2 inches and in my
case, made a kind of woosh-woosh sound. The airplane was perfectly controllable
and flew quite normally. Fly a NORMAL pattern, make a NORMAL approach, land,
taxi off the runway, latch the canopy and depart again. Not a big deal
unless you allow it to be. (I'm assuming here that you're asking about the
forward hinged canopy and not the parallelogram system).
Bill Harrelson
N5ZQ 320 1,650 hrs
N6ZQ IV under construction
What would
happen if one takes off without latching the canopy in a Lancair 360.
Any personal experiences out there?
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