PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Bush flying in cold weather conditions.
View Single Post
Old 24th Feb 2010, 03:07
  #1 (permalink)  
Wildpilot
 
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Where the work is.
Posts: 127
Likes: 0
Received 0 Likes on 0 Posts
Bush flying in cold weather conditions.

Hi, I am just a bit curious about how you deal with the engine management side of things (piston) in serious cold weather conditions such as experienced all over N America.

I have experience of extremely hot weather ops in Africa mainly in a 206 with the Continental 540. We used to have a great deal of trouble staying out of the red and as we operated from above 3000ft in field elevation and sometimes as hot as 46 degrees Centigrade I got used to a very underpowered aircraft. Having said that you could still take very big loads out and I wondered what it would be like in arctic temperatures at sea level, do you have to use partial power settings. I should think a continental 540 has tons of grunt in that situation.

Just curious.
Wildpilot is offline