Flight with door removed

Any suggestions on where I can find the inflight limitations with the
door removed, for any aircraft?

How about the manufacturer....

"Jay Smith" wrote in message
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Any suggestions on where I can find the inflight limitations with the
door removed, for any aircraft?

If there is no provision for flight with the door removed in your POH, you
probably need an STC or FSDO field approval. Shouldn't be too hard to get.

Have you flown an aircraft with the door off, before this?

If not, then try popping the door latch while on final to see what you
think... You may change your mind about this...
denny
"Jay Smith" wrote in message
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Any suggestions on where I can find the inflight limitations with the
door removed, for any aircraft?

Dennis O'Connor wrote:
Have you flown an aircraft with the door off, before this?

Yes. Skydiving operations. Cherokee Six (rear and baggage doors removed)
and Cessna 180 (right cabin door removed), Cessna 182 (right cabin door
removed).
I do not recall what the limitations are, so I was hoping there was a
website where they could be found. I know there are some oil canning
issues in flight with the door(s) removed on some aircraft.

"Jay Smith" wrote in message news
I do not recall what the limitations are, so I was hoping there was a
website where they could be found. I know there are some oil canning
issues in flight with the door(s) removed on some aircraft.

The limitations are whatever the authority you have to remove the door is.
As pointed out, it must be supported by the original operating limitations, or
through an STC or special approval.

The fact that certain jump zones operate illegally is not surprising...a crash here
in 1975 was attributed to bogus W&B info from unauthorized skydiving mods
to a Queen Air including seat and door removal.

POH for the Maule spells it out. Any single door can be removed with IAS
limitations.

"Jay Smith" wrote in message
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Any suggestions on where I can find the inflight limitations with the
door removed, for any aircraft?

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"Ron Natalie" wrote:


The fact that certain jump zones operate illegally is not surprising...a
crash here
in 1975 was attributed to bogus W&B info from unauthorized skydiving mods
to a Queen Air including seat and door removal.

Geez, that was almost 30 years ago...you still make assumptions on
something that happened that long ago? Skydiving, like ANY aviation
operation, has it's bad eggs but I'm confident that you would find the
vast majority operate legal, safe airplanes.

You sure it was a Queen Air. I can't find the accident in the NTSB
database. I fly jumpers and I like to see what has caught other pilots
so that it doesn't catch me.

--
Dale L. Falk

There is nothing - absolutely nothing - half so much worth doing
as simply messing around with airplanes.

http://home.gci.net/~sncdfalk/flying.html

Jay:

See: FAA AC 105-2C paragraph 23

http://www1.faa.gov/avr/AFS/ac105-2c.txt

This covers the general requirements to remove a door and
the appendix contains a list of aircraft approved to do so.

Pete Brown

Jay Smith wrote:
Any suggestions on where I can find the inflight limitations with the
door removed, for any aircraft?


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Peter D. Brown
http://home.gci.net/~pdb/
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/akmtnsoaring/

I used to fly my 57 Lane with the right door off for photo runs... Cold and
really noisy... I miss that airplane...

I hauled jumpers in a 180... I do not miss that!

denny

"Jay Smith" wrote in message I know there are some oil
canning
issues in flight with the door(s) removed on some aircraft.