Rotax also supplies barbed fittings and black rubber like hoses. As Barry says, the key here isn't that the hoses won't work, it's fire prevention and containment. Using those hoses in a plane isn't a problem, but I would strongly recommend using firesleeve over them.
Jeff Scott On Sat, 10 Feb 2007 20:05:38 +0200 "AVLEC" <av...@telkomsa.net> writes: > Hi guys > I recently took delivery of a 3300 Jabiru motor and a firewall forward kit > for it to be installed in a whisper motor glider. > Here is a factory supplied motor and fitment kit that has the entire fuel > system plumbed with "rubber" fuel hose, barbed fittings and hose clamps. > This is for the suction lines as well as for the pressurised part after the > fuel pumps. > Come to think of it, the 2.0L fuel injected hot hatch (VW GTI thrasher, > sorry Mark I couldn't resist) that I used to have used rubber hose and hose > clamps troughout the system except it had steel pipes under the car for > obvious reasons. > If this is accepted practise by Jabiru and even in high pressure auto fuel > injection systems, why is it frowned upon in aviation? > Regards > Dene Collett > KR2SRT builder > South africa > Whisper assembler > See: www.whisperaircraft.com > mailto: av...@telkomsa.net
