Can you get heated suits? Of even a heater, perhaps, in a Thruster?
Can you get heated suits? Of even a heater, perhaps, in a Thruster?
If you're hanging on to a rising balloon, you're presented with a difficult decision - let go before it's too late or hang on and keep getting higher, posing the question: how long can you keep a grip on the rope?
Ah, c'mon Halibut! You know the sort of response you're likely to get to a question like that...Originally Posted by Halibut
... e g Real microlights don't have heaters, and the Thruster is a real microlight, so No you cant get a heater in one. Not that it would do any good, the cabin is too leaky
Heaters are for nesh wusses, of course. You want a heater, you need a CT, Eurostar or a C42. Or a Cessna...
Yeah, you can get heated clothing though. Look at motorcycle clothing suppliers.
Martin
BMAA 5370
Halibut (25-11-19), MadamBreakneck (13-11-19)
Don't forget that you have a 200 watt heater on board - your own body.
As with motorcycling, the trick is to keep that heat where you want it. In the Thruster cabin (assuming it's an enclosed one), you have half the work done for you by keeping most of the wind off. The rest can be achieved with clothing. I use an 'army surplus' tank suit and pigskin gloves.
G-BZNP Still not dead, but resting following engine failure.
I use a good ski suit in my flex and I'm OK for upto two and a half hours with a ground temp of -3°C, but then, I was reared in Yorkshire where men are men
F-JRIB LF1751 Corme Ecluse
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Phil.
Wot Martin said!
I'm grown up enough to say that if it's freezing at ground level I don't fly. I said that even when people were offering me money to instruct them.
That said, if it's proper cold then I wear a motorbike heated jacket beneath a silk gilet under the wind-proof outer layers. A nice silk scarf does a good job too, as do gloves, thick socks and a woolly hat. 'Cos the TST doesn't have a battery, I use one of the modern portable jump starters to provide power - it weighs zilch and gives me over half an hour of toasty warmth; I have an on/off switch in circuit so I don't overheat and I get enough heat to keep me comfy for well over an hour.
In an enclosed pipe'n'slippers Thruster I never found it necessary. (Modification caution: you may need to go through the BMAA if you wish to beef up your aircraft wiring to supply 50 watts to your jacket ~ or 100 watt if your passenger has one too). Towards the end of their days, the Thruster factory did sell after-market heated seat covers, but you'd be lucky to find one now, I suspect.
The art is to keep your internal organs warm. An old-fashioned trick is to have a cup of warm soup just before flying and another one waiting in the flask for use on your return - wonderful central heating.
Back to just bimbling in the TST.
No longer instructing - just pontificating..
Cosy idea. Mind you, I might need to install a... ahem... comfort tube, too
If you have a nosewheel Thruster, the glide angle on approach is enough to allow any collected fluid on the cockpit floor to find its way out.
I am, of course, referring to spilt soup.
G-BZNP Still not dead, but resting following engine failure.
Ha! If it’s cold enough, of course, the... er... soup might freeze. Then it can be simply picked up and ejected from the aircraft in one lump. Does anyone know the freezing point of ‘soup’?If you have a nosewheel Thruster, the glide angle on approach is enough to allow any collected fluid on the cockpit floor to find its way out.
I am, of course, referring to spilt soup.
Nope, air navigation order says only 'water' or fine sand.
Coarse sand, whatever that is, is therefore strictly verboten.
"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place" - G.B.S.
It was water, yer honour, it's just polluted with, er, soup.
G-BZNP Still not dead, but resting following engine failure.
Halibut (25-11-19)
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