Darryl Greenamyer is the only person that
I know of that has an engine compartment fire extinguisher system installed on
a Legacy. This was done by Andy Chiavetta.
Cell: 1-714-225-2937
Office- 1-949-498-3875
He may be able to help you with this.
I’m not sure that the accident you
referenced was caused by an inflight fire. There was a report by the pilot that
he had a fire, but there was no fire on the ground, as the airplane did not
burn.
Lynn Farnsworth
Super Legacy # 235
TSIO-550 Powered
Race # 44
Mmo .6 Mach
From: Lancair Mailing List [mailto:lml@lancaironline.net] On Behalf Of Valin & Allyson Thorn
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010
8:19 AM
To: lml@lancaironline.net
Subject: [LML] In Flight Engine
Fire Extinguishers
Hey LML gang,
As part of our
risk management strategy, we want to install an engine fire extinguishing
system in our Legacy under construction. We’ve zeroed in on this
Halon 1301 based system from Safecraft. See screen shot from Aircraft
Spruce’s website:

We’d
appreciate comments and advice from the community regarding choice of systems
and installation recommendations. Some specific questions are:
· Would a single 5 lb bottle provide
enough Halon concentration to extinguish an in-flight fire?
· Do we need to route discharge lines to
the cowling inlets to ensure we’re getting the Halon throughout the
compartment when discharged for a fire?
· Has anyone had an engine fire that was
successfully extinguished in flight?
· We’re trying to eliminate
mechanical connections to the instrument panel to make it easy to remove for
maintenance (eg. No push pull cables, etc.). Anyone have experience with
setting up for electrically actuating a system?
·
Etc.
Thanks,
Valin Thorn
Legacy
Houston, Texas
Starflight, Inc.
1702
Emerald Lake Ct,
Houston, TX 77062
281.486.4663
http://www.starflight.aero/legacy
