Good point.

Also, open that window. Its 95F and humid and loud. :D

I wouldn't worry about overpressurizing the ductwork, but I don't see the point of using two different cooling units, at least one of which runs on a thermostat, to try to reach one temperature. Either the ground air works, and it's cold enough; or it doesn't, and it'll fight the APU.

If you need the APU, get the air disconnected. How complicated could that possibly be?

Also, some of the fleets can't cool down efficiently when running recirc fans: the air that's picked up often comes from the cargo compartment, which is open to the hot (and often humid) air. Another great example of fighting yourself.

Amen.

And BTW, I actually like the -88, I flew F/O on it for five years (back in the old days, when Captains didn't do walk arounds and we had to climb ladders almost every leg!). But it is stinkin' hot when the APU is off, almost regardless of time of year, because it has no recirc fans. And if you have weak external conditioned air (or lots of kinks) the pax are MISERABLE.

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If you are on the 9, You run the packs, ground air and crack the window if your hot (May-Sept) and it's still in to 90s. But the cold front came through last night and the forecast high in MSP today is 65F. Nice.........:D Good weather for Amish Flying.

It turns out there is a training video on DeltaNet concerning APU use and cooling in the summer.

It features a CP/ACS meeting. The protagonists are:
1) Captain Dandy, a MD-88 Captain that didn't find external air connected upon arriving at the aircraft, and refused to turn on the APU until he could ascertain the whereabouts of aforementioned conditioned air.
2) A CP, who leaves early for a "meeting", leaving the others to answer Danny's questions.
3) Archie, the Assistant Chief.
4) Danny, a representative from ACS who explains, in greater detail, the whereabouts of the conditioned air for the particular flight.
5) There is another Flight Ops guy in there, but he doesn't get to speak.

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Gee, I never thought of that? These are the guys that come into the cockpit and don't say a word, they just turn off the APU.

Thanks for the advice, can't believe I never thought of that.http://usera.ImageCave.com/Dr5115/brickwall.gif

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If somebody does that, they're just an *******. Plain and simple. you're going to have a bad trip.

Like I said, open the window. Thats very annoying on a hot day because so much heat comes in. And on your overnight, run over to CVS or something and get a thermometer. Hand it to the FA's.

We're too big not to have them but I'll say again all of the ones I flew with this summer said fire it up when it got hot.

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