[David603]

The FM is like the config file for your il2 game. Basically in there there is a line which says this "Canopy = 0" if it was 1 then it would open assuming you have the relevant class files to animate the movement of it. There are other things like wing area, breakup speed and stuff like that in the fm.

Would it be possible to take the files concerning opening canopies from either the MkXII or MkXIV, since these are both derived from the MKVIII, and replace the default MkVIII canopy files with these to allow the MkVIII to have an opening canopy? This mod could replace or be added to the MkVIII.FB so that this wouldn't be modifying the FM of a default plane.