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Old September 4th 16, 09:05 AM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
David Salmon[_3_]
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Default Suction cup damaging canopy?

At 02:08 04 September 2016, Oscar-Hotel-Mike wrote:
Sorry for a bit of an aside on this topic but I dislike mounting anything
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o the canopy, frame or glass, as it could (maybe a big could) prevent the
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anopy from ejecting properly. Of course this would only happen if there
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a power/data cable involved. Now I will admit that this would seem to

be
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an unlikely event when a PDA/PNA has a USB connector which SHOULD release
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asily. It was probably more of an issue with the ubiquitous cradles
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g Compaq PDAs of days gone by with surprisingly strong cabling. But if

we
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have to eject we don't want anything hanging things up. Right?


If you go high in wave they can drop off.
Dave