Originally Posted by
CFI Guy
I don't miss the days of training students in a DA40 during the summer.
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Check out these coolers. It's a small investment but they work great. My friend has a Cherokee and swears the cooler works better than his plane's factory air conditioning.
A long time ago I flew ambulance in a light piston twin. I worked in a very hot area, and the airplane had no air conditioning. I bought a device similar to that, and pumped it directly to the patient. It did very little, but was better than nothing.
Originally Posted by
JamesNoBrakes
I also would never choose to fly out of somewhere like PHX, Texas, etc., for this reason. Just too oppressive in the summer IMO.
Except that Phoenix is one of the busiest and most active flight training locations in the country, and where several airlines choose to base their ab-initio flight training, and where dozens of others their contracted flight training. The weather permits training nearly every day, year-round. It also means that much of the flight training must be done at lower altitudes for ground reference pattern work, etc. Nature of the beast.