REFLECTOR: Ouch

[Mark Magee]

Hi Alex,
You are a man after my own heart. There is little worse for a pilot than an
in-flight fire. They're quite rare, but might ruin a whole day. We used
Halon extensively in the Navy, unbelievably effective. I thought Halon fire
suppressant been outlawed but just checked and found them still available.
I may follow your lead and have a Halon bottle trained on my engine
compartment with heat sensors. I'll have to study this: the ram air for the
cylinders does present a problem with any fire-suppressant flooding
technique for an aircraft engine compartment. Ideally the ram air feeds
would also need Halon nozzles, as well as the 'static' air in the engine
compartment. Don't know if the concentration in the ram-air would be
sufficient to quench.  I would think nozzles aimed at the FI distributor
block and other usual suspects for an engine compartment fire would be
appropriate. I would be interested in seeing your nozzle outlay.
Yes, this one ended well for the pilot, not so much his bird.
Mark Magee
N34XL

On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Alex Balic <velocity_pilot at verizon.net>wrote:

> I am a little bit paranoid about something like that happening, so I have
> the heat sensors, and a 3 pound halon bottle plumbed to the engine
> compartment-might even add camera for the inside of the compartment - at
> least the pilot got out OK****
>
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> *Sent:* Sunday, July 29, 2012 2:52 PM
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> *Subject:* REFLECTOR: Ouch****
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>
> Back from OSH last night. This morning had to go help clean up this sad
> situation. Cozy Mk III with a torbo rotary engine. Smelled oil and headed
> back on flt #6. Unfortunately, as he was turning off the runway, things gor
> worse. At least he is fine.  ****
>
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>
> Kurt   ****
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