newt
Well Known Member
Rather than hijack Bob's thread, here's a second one for the alternative extreme.
What's the hottest temperature you'll fly in?
Last weekend I taunted some friends who fly shark patrol by waving an ice-cold bottle of water at them from the other side of the security fence as they stumbled out of a sweat-soaked Cessna 172 at 40 deg C (about 105 deg F)
I'm not a huge fan of flying when it's hot. I've observed the CHTs nudging 400F on climbout from sea level on a 36 deg C day (about 95 deg F). Easily fixed by dropping the nose a bit to increase the climb speed, or perhaps by levelling out and flying at full rich cruise power for a few minutes to let the temp come back down before resuming the climb. By the time I get above 5000' the combination of manifold pressure and adiabatic cooling basically solves the problem.
But I don't like having to solve it.
Besides that, being in a bubble canopy when it's that hot is pretty miserable at the best of times. Even when I'm up where it's cool and high, I know you'll have to get hot and low again eventually.
I'm not alone in feeling like this, right?
- mark
What's the hottest temperature you'll fly in?
Last weekend I taunted some friends who fly shark patrol by waving an ice-cold bottle of water at them from the other side of the security fence as they stumbled out of a sweat-soaked Cessna 172 at 40 deg C (about 105 deg F)
I'm not a huge fan of flying when it's hot. I've observed the CHTs nudging 400F on climbout from sea level on a 36 deg C day (about 95 deg F). Easily fixed by dropping the nose a bit to increase the climb speed, or perhaps by levelling out and flying at full rich cruise power for a few minutes to let the temp come back down before resuming the climb. By the time I get above 5000' the combination of manifold pressure and adiabatic cooling basically solves the problem.
But I don't like having to solve it.
Besides that, being in a bubble canopy when it's that hot is pretty miserable at the best of times. Even when I'm up where it's cool and high, I know you'll have to get hot and low again eventually.
I'm not alone in feeling like this, right?
- mark