One strategy is to go for the glider DV panels in the side of the doors
in the perspex. Here in the UK you can get them with optional flip
out vents. In my MCR01 they provide excellent ventilation and its quit good
on the ground with the prop running.
I can send you a jpeg of the piccy if you want to.
In fact on the MCR01 they work so well we have to add a device
to stop them auto opening!
peter
Peter Bondar, VP Tarantella Marketing, Cambridge UK
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-----Original Message-----
From: gstout@us.ibm.com <gstout@us.ibm.com>
Date: Thursday, September 02, 1999 1:35 PM
Subject: Hot Cockpit
>
>
>This past weekend I put a couple of hours on my Europa, and frankly the
flight
>was very uncomfortable. Here in Florida the temperature at mid-day is
about 95
>(F), with 95% humidity. I was perspiring so much my clothes were soaked
through
>to my skivvies, and it occurred to me that I might have experienced a mild
form
>of "heat prostration". This definitely isn't a good thing to happen to a
pilot.
>I've concluded I've got to get more ventilation / air flow into the cockpit
to
>cool me off.
>
>Presently I have a NACA type air duct on each side of the fuselage, about
where
>my knees are located, but the volume of air they supply isn't enough. Does
>anyone out there have some good ideas for a post-completion, retro-fit air
flow
>system? Since my plane is completed and nicely painted, I'm reluctant to
start
>cutting, grinding, bonding, sanding, into my fuselage. How about some
gizmo
>that glues onto the windscreen, or side canopies which would simply require
>drilling a hole into the perspex, and gluing on some sort of adjustable
vent.
>Any ideas would be much appreciated!
>
>Regards,
>Garry
>(813) 878-3929
>FAX (813) 878-5651, Internet ID Gstout@us.ibm.com
>
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