EP6 – Parker Fuel Inerting System, Pilatus PC12 and PC24, Cirrus Safe Return System
How do we eliminate flammable fuel vapor in transport aircraft fuel tanks? Equipment like the Parker fuel inerting system - OBIGGS - and Air Separation Modules fill the ullage space with inert nitrogen gas. The Pilatus PC12 was a game-changer. Is the PC24 business jet headed for the same level of success?Cirrus Aircraft introduced the airframe parachute system on their SR-20. With the new Vision Jet, Cirrus and Garmin take safety to the next level with the Safe Return System. Check out the Safe Return System in operation via YouTube - https://youtu.be/JvzPpOknjME Learn more about Weather Guard StrikeTape segmented lightning diverter strips. Follow the show on YouTube, Twitter, Linkedin and visit us on the web. Have a question we can answer on the show? Email us! 6:20 Parker Aerospace's inerting systems 17:57 The Pilatus PC12 and PC24 23:58 Lightning and turboprop engines 25:49 Cirrus parachute and Safe Return system 33:13 Garmin makes awesome products Transcript: Struck EP6 Dan: Hello, welcome back. This is the Struck podcast, episode six. I'm your cohost Dan Blewett, and here on the Struck podcast we talk about everything, lightning protection, aviation and aerospace tech. And I am here joined remotely by lightning protection expert, Allen Hall. Allen, how are you? Allen: Great. Dan, how are you doing? Dan: Doing well, so. A lot of new things going on this week. I got a new mic on the way, so ordered some new parts for my podcasting set up here. I got this huge, like dr octopus, um, like at home set up, which is pretty intense. Um, what's going on with you up there? Allen: Uh, well, we've been through a couple of snowstorms over the last week. Uh, everybody is still quarantined for the most part. They canceled school for the rest of the year. Uh, how's everyone feel about that? Not happy, not happy at all. Uh, all the, the kids are just missing being with the kids and the teachers are trying to work, uh, classes through zoom and, or other video formats, and it's just not the same. And so the kids. Are really struggling with the lack of sort of one-on-one or a groups with the teacher interactions. I'm just trying to get homework done. The other thing that he announced, it's, it's all pass fail. So the kids don't have grades like they would normally, and my daughter's a junior so. This is sort of like the year you need grades to start applying to schools and no one showed her and the SATs have been shoved off and it's just, everything's in chaos right now. Um, so that's, that's, uh, an unusual twist cause I didn't think the sat would get shoved off like that, but it, it did, it got pushed off until then, until the fall. And then the other thing that seems like it's happening is a lot of the colleges and universities. Or not worrying about sat scores. So they're just saying, apply with what you have, which is going to be, it's going to be an interesting curve that's just going to be on, uh, for the next couple of years to see how that all plays out. We're not going to know, obviously for several years to see what happens there, but, um, kids not going to class all the time and, and just know a couple of teachers in different parts of the country. And. They're having trouble with the kids showing up on the, on the video, uh, video links, like someone that just don't show up and what are you going to do? There's really, you can't force them to show up. Right. So if they're not going to show up, they're not going to show up. Yeah. It's unfortunate because the kids are really missing out on a good opportunity to learn. You know, if you're sitting at home in bounds, we'll be learning something. Yeah, we'll see. Well, they're probably Googling things, if that's any consolation. Tick tock, tick tock you tubing a, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or learning how to, I mean, there's so much weird stuff on Instagram, like interesting stuff. I watch. Little clips of manufacturing and woodworking and li...