REFLECTOR: Door stays closed

[Scott Derrick]

Ron,

Your not alone.  I haven't actually taken off, but came close! I latchd just before rotation once.  Glad your experience was gentle on the learning curve!

Scott

Ron Velocity XLFG <VelocityXL at fastmail.fm> wrote:

>I am not proud of this but I took off with my door not latched. I had been working on a blinking sump  lights
>and thought that’s the light that was on, after take off at  about 500 ft agl I noticed  it was my door light.
>Reached over latched the door with no issue. So I post this just to say this door spring mount does work well
>at pulling the door closed even in flight. I have no plans of testing this any further but thought  it would be good to 
>but this out there.
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