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I tried flying without AC in the summer in Houston. You can dump the door seal and get some relief above say 6000 feet, but I wouldn't do it with passengers, ears etc. I also tried hot wx army vests with cooling. Weird feeling too cold over your chest and your head's too hot.... The desert cooler worked pretty good but iced up the windows... cool but IMC
After about 3 years of this, we installed AC.
We just made a deal on an early "vintage" Eclipse. We are using it in an Aero Engineering course at Rice U. RVSM pending and Engine AD restrict us to FL280 and I get 203 KEAS at 530 pph ~80gph
IV-P 205 KIAS at FL240 and 75% 25 gph, So far Eclipse Air Conditioning is not very good- same problem as Lancair with heat loading of cabin with bleed air.
We're considering a West coast trip next week from Houston via Colorado/Wyoming to COE,
Idaho, then SEA, RDM Oregon, SJC/MRY CA, and back to TX. If you are headed along such a route and want to share a VLJ, collect some Performance data, and stick time, for some gas money, give me a holler.
Bill Miller,
USN-TPS IP CFI ATP
IV-P 440 hrs, IV-p 55 hrs, EA50 20 hrs (+100hrs pre-Ch 11)
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