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y feet in the air and 50 feet of runway left, OK; however, not good when th
e canopy comes open.=0A =0AThanksgiving day was beautiful and I had not bee
n home for 2 weeks so I decided to go flying. The temperature was the cold
est that I had flown my plane, 40's in the hanger. The door/canopy did not
close quite normal which I attribute to the temp change. After two touch
& goes all looked great until the door came open. First I thought that I w
as a "has been", but I noticed that the plane was still controllable and th
at the canopy was still intact. After reminding myself several times FLY T
HE PLANE, I was able to use my left hand to hold the canopy shut. About th
at time I remembered that there was a 20-30 story Holiday Inn just ahead of
me now that I was off course, so stress got to be a little high. Downwind
went fairly normally; however, the landing became interesting because I ha
d never used my right hand on the controls and thus there was no easy to co
ntrol throttle, trim, etc. The landing actually turned out to be pretty go
od, that may be relative because I have
had many that were not pretty.=0A =0AOn another note, my Geo Metro engine
is working great and the engine computer greatly simplifies the engine mana
gement. In cases like that above simplicity can contribute to safety.=0A
=0AChuck Rhoads A100=0AN246CR Trike=0A=0A=0A =0A_________________________
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