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A 2002 study mandated by Congress recommended requiring carbon monoxide sensors on all passenger airplanes. Today, most homes have them; airplanes do not.
Strebav8or wrote:Seems to be prevalent problem, if you read any other av news site, with the A318-319/320/321.
N965UW wrote:From the article:A 2002 study mandated by Congress recommended requiring carbon monoxide sensors on all passenger airplanes. Today, most homes have them; airplanes do not.
It's interesting how CO detectors are so widespread in light GA, but not in jets where everybody breathes bleed air
Strebav8or wrote:Seems to be prevalent problem, if you read any other av news site, with the A318-319/320/321.
zeke wrote:N965UW wrote:From the article:A 2002 study mandated by Congress recommended requiring carbon monoxide sensors on all passenger airplanes. Today, most homes have them; airplanes do not.
It's interesting how CO detectors are so widespread in light GA, but not in jets where everybody breathes bleed air
Carbon monoxide is a colourless and odourless gas, that is a by product of combustion. What was described in the article was visible and had a smell, so it is not carbon monoxide.
It’s widespread in GA because they heat the cabin by taking air from around the exhaust downstream of combustion where carbon monoxide is a by product of combustion. Bleed air from jet engines is taken from the compressor upstream of combustion.
Lawmakers advocating carbon monoxide detectors in an airliner is like lawmakers advocating injecting disinfectant for COVID. It is not their area of expertise.