> Further to our recent correspondence on cockpit vents, I did some tests
>today whilst out playing with my toy.
> I can now positively confirm that my vented air is vacuumed out through
>the flap lever slot, and quite powerfully at that. So much so that when I
>stuck a flight plan page over the slot, the air through the side vents really
>dropped.
>
> This seems to be good news to me because it means that engine gases are
>more likely to be removed from the cockpit through the wheel well than they
>are to be introduced that way.
This is probably only true for XS Europas. Our Classic blew through the
gear lever slot even though the firewall, one of my own phenolic ones,
completely closed the gap at the front. I tend to the feeling that they are
all different, and also different flaps up and flaps down.
Graham
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