Re: Question for Pressurised Baron pilots

You are right of course but every preasurized airplane that I am familiar
with uses air compressed by a turbocharger or turbine engine compressor
(pretty much the same thing.)

Mike
MU-2


"Peter Duniho" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Mike Rapoport" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > If the engines aren't turbocharged how would they preasurize the cabin?
>
> It would theoretically be possible to use any other form of air pump.
I've
> never heard of such a thing, but I see no reason a turbocharger (or
turbine
> engine) would be *required* for successful pressurization.  For that
matter,
> any kind of supercharger is probably useful for the purpose of
pressurizing
> an aircraft.
>
> Of course, then there's the question of "why bother", since without a
> turbocharger, there's not a lot of incentive to fly really high where the
> pressurization would be useful, nor would the plane likely be able to
climb
> very far into those altitudes anyway.
>
> In other words, yes it's almost guaranteed that a pressurized airplane
will
> have turbocharged engines, but for someone that doesn't know how
> pressurization systems normally work, it's a reasonable question to ask
> whether the engines are pressurized or not.  IMHO, of course.
>
> Pete
>
>