"Jay Honeck" wrote

My interior gets to over 121 degrees (the max of my panel thermometer)
every time I park outside in the summer (unless I put the window
reflectors in, of course), and my plane is white.

I suppose it would be worse if it were black, but blue or red or
silver (like the new Cirrus) sure wouldn't hurt.

It is amazing how much hotter ANY color gets.

I recall that even a light color like yellow is something like over 30%
hotter than white.

Red? Dark blue and black?

You REALLY don't want to go there. g

I saw a chart one time, and it gave the interior temperatures of a boat (?)
painted different colors, I think. I could not find it now. You might want
to find it, if you can. It is a real eye opener.
--
Jim in NC