This will be a steel hood. I too would play it safe and pin it if I were running glass.

I tried a gutted steel hood on my Scamp with 4 pins on each corner, but a center pin in the front really would have helped because it caught air and lifted at about 500'.

A hinged hood will be better for me since it is usually just me and if by chance I needed to get under the hood in a hurry, popping it open the conventional way is a whole lot faster than messing with pins. And since I will be running a bonded cowl scoop, me thinks the chances of the wind trying to snatch the hood up will be less of a concern than with a forward facing scoop.

Thanks for the info.