WW I & II pilots learned some fatal lessons from this approach.

Before you bail, insure that you have set some negative pitch trim so that the nose will drop away from you providing separation between you and the aircraft.  Keep SOME forward speed, or you may find your flight path passing through the propeller arc.

This is, sadly, one maneuver we can't really practice in the air ahead of time.  However, we can rehearse "in the cockpit"  and in our minds.

Fly safe!

Bill Reister


farnsworth wrote:

Skip,

You asked:

"Is it possible to bail out of a Legacy (or 360) with a forward hinged 
canopy?"

During flight the largest force keeping the canopy from being opened is the
air pressure created by forward airspeed. What would happen to the air
pressure if the forward airspeed was reduced or actually zero?

In answer your original question, I suggest to you that is would be possible
at very low or zero airspeed. Just pull up into a steep climb, reduce the
airspeed and just before the plane stops going up, push the canopy up and
step over the side.

Or, perhaps you might use negative "G" to help exit the aircraft. 

But of course my Legacy has an aft mounted canopy so all I have to do is
unlock it and I will be able to exit.

Regards,

Lynn   




  

Since an airframe parachute option is not an OPTION on a Legacy, he had 
two
other options that may have allowed him to survive:

1. Wear a personal parachute
2. Install a feathering prop

I have both of those options with my Legacy. The prop is counterweighted 
and
so will feather with loss of oil pressure.

Lynn Farnsworth
Super Legacy #235
TSIO-550 Powered
Race #44
Mmo .6 Mach
Feathering Prop
    

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