Flying on rainy days is a bit of a pain. He'd open the canopy just enough to stick an umbrella out and open it up. Kind of funny to watch but it worked.
Andrew,
Coincidence department. Had dinner last Thursday night with a group of friends. One was an instructor who was a student of mine 35 years ago. Once well into the wine, she started telling everyone about taking instrument dual in a Cheetah and our procedure for getting in the airplane when it was raining. We'd preflight in the hangar and put the Jepps and stuff in the airplane, then pull it out, each of us holding an umbrella. After securing the tow bar, we'd get on our respective wing walks, then slide the canopy open, step in, close the umbrellas and close the canopy.
No matter what we did, everything got wet and we had to deal with two wet umbrellas in the cabin. Nevertheless, it was a lot of fun - and still the source of a lot of good memories. The way she was telling it last week had people falling off their chairs laughing.
Warmest regards,
Rick
