Originally Posted by
BoilerUP
Now, I have no idea how effective the portable Arctic Air ice chest setups are...that might provide the best of both worlds in terms of maintaining useful load when you don't need it and being cool when you do need it, but they look like they take up a fair bit of baggage space which may or may not be a concern.
One of hangar mates has a C310 that he uses the Artic Air in and it works so well in the Louisiana heat and humidity that he is installing a Keith AC system in a few weeks.
His typical trip is 175nm and he says "the the ice box just doesn't cut it".