Otonabee Posted May 18, 2020 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?
Rudel_chw Posted May 18, 2020 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 3600 - 32 GB DDR4 2400 - nVidia RTX2080 - SSD 1.25 TB - HDD 10 TB - Win10 Pro - TM HOTAS Cougar Mobile: iPad Pro 12.9" of 256 GB
Stubbies2003 Posted May 18, 2020 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.
Ourorborus Posted May 18, 2020 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:
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