X-Virus-Scanned: clean according to Sophos on Logan.com Return-Path: Received: from hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com ([71.74.56.125] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 5.2.14) with ESMTP id 3743808 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Fri, 03 Jul 2009 10:53:52 -0400 Received-SPF: pass receiver=logan.com; client-ip=71.74.56.125; envelope-from=clouduster@austin.rr.com Received: from [10.0.0.99] (really [66.25.157.35]) by hrndva-omta04.mail.rr.com with ESMTP id <20090703145312914.KZJQ22390@hrndva-omta04.mail.rr.com> for ; Fri, 3 Jul 2009 14:53:14 +0000 Message-ID: <4A4E1B4D.1060707@austin.rr.com> Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 09:53:01 -0500 From: Dennis Haverlah User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: Fire Shield or Heat Sheild [FlyRotary] Re: P MAlternator ... References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I've alwayse thought that the amount of gasoline in the fuel system in the engine compartment is quite small - maybe a pint - it is inside hose that has stainless brading and/or fire shield normally. If I have a fire, I assumed I'd be able to miminize it quickly by turning off the fuel pumps. Lycomings with engine driven fuel pumps would have to have the fuel selector turned to off and maybe the electric pump off also to reduce fuel avaliable for fire. If I have a bad exhaust leak and it catches the fiberglass cowl on fire - that may be a little bigger problem. Dennis H.