Piper door window STC worth it?

[Ben Jackson]

Great Lakes Aero offers plain replacement Piper door windows as well
STCs for their "frameless" vent windows adapted to the door side. The
cost is only a few Aviation Monetary Units more to get the vent, plus
the additional install cost since you need an IA for the STC where you
could just do the straight replacement yourself.

Seems like you get more ventilation by popping the door open an inch or
so than you get from a vent window, but you do need a passenger who is
trained to keep it open until you're about to taxi into position and then
close and latch it properly.

Has anyone out there got a door vent?

--
Ben Jackson
>
http://www.ben.com/

[Kyler Laird]

(Ben Jackson) writes:

>Has anyone out there got a door vent?

I have two windows with those "frameless" vents. The latches and
the T hinges seem a little clumsy to me, but they've worked well
(despite getting bent a time or two).

>Seems like you get more ventilation by popping the door open an inch or
>so than you get from a vent window,

Yup. It's a matter of convenience. The door latch on the Aztec
is a real pain so the vent is appreciated.

It's also handy in case you ever need your passenger to use a
flashlight to illuminate something outside...

>but you do need a passenger who is
>trained to keep it open until you're about to taxi into position and then
>close and latch it properly.

That would take a *lot* of work for me to accomplish.
http://lairds.org/Kyler/photos/disk0021/img_0484.jpg/image_viewer

--kyler

[Dan Thompson]

Why would you need an IA to sign off the replacement of one type of window
for another under an STC?


"Ben Jackson" > wrote in message
news:Lylac.137795$1p.1790541@attbi_s54...
> Great Lakes Aero offers plain replacement Piper door windows as well
> STCs for their "frameless" vent windows adapted to the door side. The
> cost is only a few Aviation Monetary Units more to get the vent, plus
> the additional install cost since you need an IA for the STC where you
> could just do the straight replacement yourself.
>
> Seems like you get more ventilation by popping the door open an inch or
> so than you get from a vent window, but you do need a passenger who is
> trained to keep it open until you're about to taxi into position and then
> close and latch it properly.
>
> Has anyone out there got a door vent?
>
> --
> Ben Jackson
> >
> http://www.ben.com/

[Nathan Young]

On Tue, 30 Mar 2004 21:22:51 GMT, (Ben Jackson) wrote:

>Great Lakes Aero offers plain replacement Piper door windows as well
>STCs for their "frameless" vent windows adapted to the door side. The
>cost is only a few Aviation Monetary Units more to get the vent, plus
>the additional install cost since you need an IA for the STC where you
>could just do the straight replacement yourself.
>
>Seems like you get more ventilation by popping the door open an inch or
>so than you get from a vent window, but you do need a passenger who is
>trained to keep it open until you're about to taxi into position and then
>close and latch it properly.
>
>Has anyone out there got a door vent?

On my Cherokee 180 - it wouldn't make sense. The cabin is narrow
enough to easily hold the door open while taxiing. Much more
ventilation than a little window can add.

[jsmith]

Finally... a picture of the dog that bites the pilot's hand if the pilot
tries to touch anything!

Kyler Laird wrote:
> That would take a *lot* of work for me to accomplish.
> http://lairds.org/Kyler/photos/disk0021/img_0484.jpg/image_viewer