Cessna air vents

Ah, okay. It's just as well, since those vents might be really, really
handy to use if you actually did have a fire in the engine compartment
or instrument panel, and you wouldn't be able to they were taped shut
from the outside. Now, just don't have an unintentional fire, and
you'll be all set.

Brien K. Meehan wrote:
Ah, okay. It's just as well, since those vents might be really, really
handy to use if you actually did have a fire in the engine compartment
or instrument panel, and you wouldn't be able to they were taped shut
from the outside. Now, just don't have an unintentional fire, and
you'll be all set.

Open the window?
Michelle

Matt wrote:
Hello everyone. It's getting a little chilly around here now; I have seen
the "ventubes" that are being sold for $75 apiece. Has anyone simply taped
over the inlet in the wing root?

I've seen some people use duct tape for this. It tends to leave a residue that's
difficult to get off later, but it works. Other people stuff foam rubber plugs
in the holes.

Both of these techniques leave you with one problem. The OAT gauge is in one of
those vents. Plug the vent, the gauge reads high once the cabin warms up.

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.

George Patterson wrote:

Matt wrote:

Hello everyone. It's getting a little chilly around here now; I have
seen the "ventubes" that are being sold for $75 apiece. Has anyone
simply taped over the inlet in the wing root?


I've seen some people use duct tape for this. It tends to leave a
residue that's difficult to get off later, but it works. Other people
stuff foam rubber plugs in the holes.

Both of these techniques leave you with one problem. The OAT gauge is in
one of those vents. Plug the vent, the gauge reads high once the cabin
warms up.

Yes, and given how easy it is to fix the vents properly, I've always
wondered why folks wanted to kludge it.


Matt

Michelle wrote:
Open the window?

That's one of a few options.

In every one of the hundred or so Cessnas I've been in, that doesn't
move a lot of air into the cabin, though.

I don't think it would work as well at clearing smoke out of my face as
the overhead vents, but maybe it might perhaps. I can think of only
one way to find out.

Brien K. Meehan wrote:
Michelle wrote:

Open the window?


That's one of a few options.

In every one of the hundred or so Cessnas I've been in, that doesn't
move a lot of air into the cabin, though.

I don't think it would work as well at clearing smoke out of my face as
the overhead vents, but maybe it might perhaps. I can think of only
one way to find out.

During the summer we fly with the windows open and it does move air.
Then again we had every thing open when it got hot.
Michelle

Brien K. Meehan wrote:

In every one of the hundred or so Cessnas I've been in, that doesn't
move a lot of air into the cabin, though.

It moved a lot in my C-150J.

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.

George Patterson wrote:
Brien K. Meehan wrote:

In every one of the hundred or so Cessnas I've been in, that doesn't
move a lot of air into the cabin, though.


It moved a lot in my C-150J.

I took the arm off the window of my 182 for taking pictures. Lots of
air comes in, all of it in the back.

Newps wrote:

I took the arm off the window of my 182 for taking pictures. Lots of
air comes in, all of it in the back.

That was my experience in the 150 except for the fact that things also got quite
windy over on the passenger side. Basically, the air came in the pilot's side,
curved around the back of the cabin, and created a fair amount of turbulence
around the passenger seat. I had to secure my chart.

George Patterson
Coffee is only a way of stealing time that should by rights belong to
your slightly older self.

Ooooh. Can I watch?

{;-)

Jim



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Then again we had every thing open when it got hot.
Michelle