I doubt that a prop brake would last long enough to cause a fire before wearing out.
I do wonder about the wisdom of "buried in the fuselage" engines without a fire suppression system.
The V2CM has a big red light on the panel to warn of an engine bay fire but no means of doing anything about it beyond turning off the fuel, shutting down the engine and /or bailing out.
A small BCF extinguisher to flood the engine bay seems like a good idea. You need a tame LAME to sign for one though as the substance is restricted due to "danger to the ozone layer". But that's the greenies for you. Better that a few people die in fires than have effective extinguishers.
Using aircraft type hoses and hose ends in the fuel system would also be a good idea.
Mike At 11:50 AM 10/01/2013, you wrote:
The translation from www.babelfish.com On the huge round pan with bitter, the natural circular land and runway, the Nimbus 4DM. lies the burnt-out wreck How the fire has broken out in a glider in fibre reinforced plastic construction, is so far a mystery. The officials of the Bureau of aircraft accident investigation, Thomas Hermann, according to Andreas Kessler and his passenger and his wife, Ana Fernanda Chirica Jurca brought is the pilot, after the emergency landing in safety, after shortly after the start, the thrust of the retractable motor eased. Produced with a puff of smoke behind attractive Kessler landed the aircraft (reported in AZ), which is 8.62 meters long and has a wingspan of 26.5 m. Two weeks earlier, the pilot had flown daily without problems. Bitter in the South of the country is a Mecca for gliders in the summer months. (English) Engine or Brake fire does it have a engine brake I know there has been wheel brake fires in the past? Quoting [email protected]:Send Aus-soaring mailing list submissions to [email protected] To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to [email protected] You can reach the person managing the list at [email protected] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Aus-soaring digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Glider engine fire (Matthew Scutter) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2013 20:37:39 +1030 From: Matthew Scutter <[email protected]> Subject: [Aus-soaring] Glider engine fire To: "Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia." <[email protected]> Message-ID: <calubygs4_xwnm85yxqkxxj7qpxzpfyep8tw0dcycaxfuazm...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 The photo in the linked article is spectacular and eyeopening. http://www.az.com.na/bild-des-tages/segelflugzeug-brennt-vllig-aus-ursache-unklar.161901.php (Both pilots escaped without harm) ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring End of Aus-soaring Digest, Vol 112, Issue 4 *******************************************_______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
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