REFLECTOR: Cabin Heat/air exit

[Alex Balic]

Cabin air exits through the spar channel, and out of the bottom bolt hole
covers which are installed like backward facing scoops for this purpose, it
can also exit through the gap between the wing and the strake. On the RG,
there is also going to be quite a bit of opening near the gear legs.

 

From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On
Behalf Of Mark Magee
Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 10:45 PM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: Cabin Heat

 

Ruben,

I would like to piggy-back on your question and add this one: Where (by
design or not), is the pressurized heated air from the front cooler/NACA
scoop exiting the cabin? Is it going out via the door seals (my guess)? I
can't see any designed way out for the pressurized air from either cabin
heat or overhead cooling vents. Methinks that air pressurized for heating
the cabin is better than recirculated air as it floods any possible air
leaks into the cabin with the heated air. However as there is no designed
vent or dump of the pressurized air, is this situation best for our door
seals and/or where ever else the pressurized air exits the cabin.

Not trying to be picky here, but would the cabin heater be more effective if
we told it where to exit the cabin rather than it oozing out any air gap it
can find? Just asking.

Mark B. Magee

N34XL XLFG 300HP 80 HRS

Brady TX

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On Jan 12, 2012, at 8:35 PM, "Ruben Creus" <ruben at vainneg.com> wrote:

Hi all,

 

When I am flying below 0 Celsius outside temperature, the oil cooler seems
to not heat enough the air coming into the cabin. The other day at -12C
outside it was very chill in the cabin. I heard some of you partially cover
the cooler, but not sure if the can be risky if covered too much. Has any
one had any experience trying to get more cabin heat?

 

Ruben

 

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