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| Subject: | Re: opening door in flight |
My door opened on my first flight. It was impossible to pull it back and close
it. You would need superhuman strength. You can' overpower the wind. Unlike the
the pilot that John mentioned my door did not slam into the bottom of the wing
with the door handle piercing the bottom wing skin before ripping off and hitting
the horizontal tail, never to be found, my door went up high, did not damage
the wing, could not be reached so I slowed airspeed and it lowered to about
45Degrees. It flew stable, like a third wing. I considered my options and decided
to ignore it which I am sure was correct.I landed safely and changed the
angle of the bracket that holds the door handle latch. It has not happened again.
The bracket was in a neutral position and the latch vibrated loose on downwind.
I changed the angle slightly to cause the latch to want to stay closed.
This is not the "Bubble" door.
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Dual controls. Dynon 180. Icom 210 Garmin 296. Becker transponder. Sigtronics intercom.
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| Subject: | Re: opening door in flight |
With the bubble door we added 2 additional latches driven by rods from the
original latch simular to the 801.
After door is latched we have added a simple latch at the front of the
door to pull door in out of air flow.
The door can still be opened from the outside in an emergency by the
original handle as the door will flex enough to release the new front latch.
We also used bolts not rivets in hinge on door.
On Sun, 12 Jul 2020, 14:18 Geoff Heap, <stol10@comcast.net> wrote:
>
> My door opened on my first flight. It was impossible to pull it back and
> close
> it. You would need superhuman strength. You can' overpower the wind.
> Unlike the the pilot that John mentioned my door did not slam into the
> bottom of the wing with the door handle piercing the bottom wing skin
> before ripping off and hitting the horizontal tail, never to be found, my
> door went up high, did not damage the wing, could not be reached so I
> slowed airspeed and it lowered to about 45Degrees. It flew stable, like a
> third wing. I considered my options and decided to ignore it which I am
> sure was correct.I landed safely and changed the angle of the bracket that
> holds the door handle latch. It has not happened again. The bracket was in
> a neutral position and the latch vibrated loose on downwind. I changed the
> angle slightly to cause the latch to want to stay closed. This is not the
> "Bubble" door.
>
> --------
> Dual controls. Dynon 180. Icom 210 Garmin 296. Becker transponder.
> Sigtronics intercom. Electric flaperons.
>
>
> Read this topic online here:
>
> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=497255#497255
>
>
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