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Old 11th Nov 2021, 21:31
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visibility3miles
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One time my spouse and I hopped out of a Cessna 172 after a flight, leaving both doors wide open once I taxied into our tie down spot, at which point the breeze started to make it roll forward.

The open doors turned it into a kite, catching the wind, which we could have predicted HAD WE THOUGHT ABOUT IT IN ADVANCE.

We immediately bounced back towards the plane and slammed the doors shut so it wouldn’t slam into a plane across the way. Oops!

We pushed it back and tied it down. Lesson learned.

The wind was straight down the runway, so landing was easy. It’s the tie down that got interesting.
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