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Old 19th Jul 2020, 02:41
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Squawk7700
 
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Originally Posted by currawong
Not ruling anything out, but I used to fly a machine that, when you hit the "smoker", it would fill the cockpit with smoke.

This was a pretty fair visible indication that whatever was leaving the RHS exhaust stack was heading in abundance into the cockpit.

That said, for anything to find its way in there must be something finding its way out.
I have a smoker on my aircraft and the smoke comes out the exhaust which is below the fuselage. It’s possible that some comes out the injector in to the manifold and as a result the cockpit fills with some smoke when using it. Makes you seriously wonder what else is getting in there too.
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