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From: Lorn H Olsen <lorn@dynacomm.us>
Subject: Re: LNC2 Unlatched canopy

Parallelogram System

I forgot to latch all 4 of my latches. On the climb out it sounded a  
little noisy. I then noticed that the latches were open. I closed all  
4 of them and continued the flight.

Lorn

> From: "Bill" <n5zq@verizon.net>
> Date: August 21, 2009 6:24:13 PM EDT
>
> 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?