The idea of a hinge designed to fail first after a door opening in flight
incident
is interesting. Best to prevent the door opening in the first place?
The C150 Aerobat and other planes have doors that can be jettisoned deliberately
to aid egress in the event of an inflight incident (like the wings folding
maybe).
This idea seems sound as it is in keeping with the regs for the category
of aircraft.
For those who wish to add structurally inefficient kgs to the weight of their
aircraft
then reinforcing the doors may be a route they wish to take. But where
does this process end? Double harnesses in case one fails? Spare set of wings!
If the number of unintended canopy/door incidents is sufficient the LAA will no
doubt take a view and introduce a fix via an MPD. Personally l think the
incidents
recorded appear to be low in comparison to the total fleet flights. Perhaps
we can get this info from MM at the LAA?
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John Wighton
Europa XS trigear G-IPOD
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