pilot question

toad67

What typical MPG do these small planes (e.g. Cessna 182) get, under average conditions?

toad67

Local air show has the blue angels flying around. My question is that it is right at 100 degrees and those guys are wearing flight suits and are in a tiny cock pit, do they have any a/c in the cab, how do they stay cool?

woodshed87

Open The Lil Wing Windows
oh that Was in My 57.......[:I]

Don McManus

The Blue Angles actually do not wear flight suits or G-suits. The inflation of a g-suit would be too distracting for what they do.

I would assume the the cockpits are climate controlled to keep the humidity down if nothing else.

kidthatsirish

Yes they have air conditioning.

fishkiller41

Of course they have A/C.Those are Fighter jets with no guns or rockets.I'm SURE they left the A/C intact as well.

KAMsales

A lot of planes use "air bleed" systems that use air from the compressor stage of the motor to cool the pilot and electronics. Some have fluid tubes in the flight suits that circulate liquid to heat/cool the pilot as well.

ltcdoty

Back in the day, flight line mechanics would call the guys that worked on those system, heat & vent guys.

They would get pizzed and say they were environmental system specialists..[:)][:p]

Rocky Raab

Yes, they have A/C. But they still lose as much as a gallon of body water during that show, from exertion.

Txs

quote:Originally posted by Don McManus
The inflation of a g-suit would be too distracting for what they do.Not really.

G-suits are worn because in combat a pilot has no idea what sort of maneuver he may have to conduct or exactly when he may be called upon to do it.

On the other hand, all Blue Angels moves are precisely planned, meaning they know exactly what stresses they're about to receive and are able to counter them with muscle tensioning.

The reason they use muscle tensioning instead of just going ahead and wearing a g-suit is that their aircraft use a specially set up, heavily tensioned control stick. Due to this they fly with one arm positioned against the top of their thigh for stability and a G-suit inflating/deflating would interfere with this.

At least that's what one of their pilots told me.