Originally Posted by
blastoff
The book on the T-6 is if you're going to depart the prepared surface, punch out. The T-6 is top heavy, and unlike the T-37 which could go off -roading and stay upright, the fear is that the T-6 would be prone to flip over and trap the pilot.
The book answer is about to change, hopefully very soon, based on a reassessment. There is nothing to support the flip/trap tendency tale, and in fact there is much to support the obvious. The way that the canopy entrapment warnings (also unsupportable by either analysis or experience) got into the Dash-1 is a comedy of epic proportions.