Otonabee Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 Hey guys, new F18 Hornet owner and looking for help. Twice now during a free flight I have lost my canopy mid flight. Literally blows off and yet I didn't touch any button. Happened on take off once I got off the ground and again during a bombing run/dive. On the take off, only thing I touched as I climbed was the ALT switch as I put it down to RDR. On the dive while bombing, only thing I touched was the pickle button to fire a rocket.... and it blew off again. Not sure if this is a glitch or if I am missing something in start up? Anyone have this or have any idea why? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rudel_chw Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 Anyone have this or have any idea why? When you close the canopy, hold onto the switch a while, to give the canopy time to really seal (the frame should move forward a bit) For work: iMac mid-2010 of 27" - Core i7 870 - 6 GB DDR3 1333 MHz - ATI HD5670 - SSD 256 GB - HDD 2 TB - macOS High Sierra For Gaming: 34" Monitor - Ryzen 3600X - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia GTX1070ti - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar - Oculus Rift CV1 Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stubbies2003 Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 Either what Rudel said or you accidentally assigned canopy jettison to a button or some such and are inadvertently hitting it. I have hundreds of hours in the F/A-18 in DCS and that has never happened to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ourorborus Posted May 18, 2020 Share Posted May 18, 2020 You mean the canopy blows off if I don't close it?!?! I've got to try that one!!!:thumbup::thumbup: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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