donaziza
Well Known Member
Went out today with my 8, (9000 Ft.) to try for the first time ever to toss the toilet paper roll out of the canopy trick. Slowed to 75 Kts, unrolled maybe 14 inches, (of toilet paper-not the canopy) and out it went. Closed the canopy, banked 90* looking for it--couldn't find the darn thing. "Finally ---spotted it at about the 12:30 position just barely in sight to the right of my prop/fuselage. Banked 90* left then 90* right with the nose down figuring it would be pretty much right on the nose. Never saw the darn thing again. (From 9000 Ft., I don't think it had hit the ground yet.) OK, you guys who have done this, is there some trick, short of rocketing it out the front of the plane, to find the darn thing??
2ed question. Not a problem, just a maintenance thing. Don't know if all RV 8's are the same as mine, but there "was" a hard rubber bumper thingy, shaped like a pencil, in my left canopy track fairing that the roller would bump up against when opening one's canopy (on the ground), so as to keep the back tip of the canopy from hitting the vertical stabilizer. Maybe it followed the toilet paper out, but it is now completely gone. Is this something I can jerryrig from HD, or do I have to go thru Vans? I'd post a picture, but I'm VAF picture challenged.
2ed question. Not a problem, just a maintenance thing. Don't know if all RV 8's are the same as mine, but there "was" a hard rubber bumper thingy, shaped like a pencil, in my left canopy track fairing that the roller would bump up against when opening one's canopy (on the ground), so as to keep the back tip of the canopy from hitting the vertical stabilizer. Maybe it followed the toilet paper out, but it is now completely gone. Is this something I can jerryrig from HD, or do I have to go thru Vans? I'd post a picture, but I'm VAF picture challenged.