¿ªÔÆÌåÓýYou guys are way more resilient than I am. 35 to 40 and Sunny are my temps. I only put one heat exchanger on my exhaust sytem when I built my RV6. Food for thought for you Tailwind? builders. If you are going to fly in Winter in the north you? will want more heat. Sun helps a lot with the RV canopy. -------- Original message -------- From: "Joe Norris via groups.io" <joepilot13@...> Date: 1/6/25 8:02 AM (GMT-06:00) Subject: Re: [TailwindForum] At what cold weather temp do you stop flying? Keith, Interesting that you should post your question today, as the Polar Vortex has just swept into Texas.? Jeri and I spend winters in TX to avoid this cold BS!? It is 24 degrees here in Fredericksburg TX this morning, so I figure most of the native Texans are frozen solid.? Jeri and I finally put our long sleeve shirts on.? Anyway, to the point of your question.... My answer is "it depends".? If I am just wanting to go out flying for fun, I usually use 20 degrees F as my cutoff.? It's not that the airplane really would care, but I just don't enjoy the cold and getting the airplane out and back in just lets heat out of the hangar.? So I just say the heck with it if it is below 20.? However, if I have a "mission" that needs accomplishing, I will just do what I have to do.? The Super Cub has a pretty good heater, at least for the front seat, and if I tape up enough of the cowl inlets I can keep the oil temp up to around 160 or so, so I will do what I need to do.? Haven't had the Tailwind long enough to know if the cabin heat is worth a darn or not, and if I play my cards right I will never have to find out!? I remember that I had to take a friend to pick up an airplane one time when it was about -20F, but the Piper Pacer I had at the time had an excellent heater so away we went.? He wasn't so warm on the way home in his new-to-him Skybolt though.? But that kind of mission is pretty rare for me, so I doubt I would have much reason to fly if it is that cold outside.? 20 is plenty cold enough for me! Hope everyone has a great 2025!! Joe On Mon, Jan 6, 2025 at 7:36?AM Keith Klos via <kloskeith=[email protected]> wrote:
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