Inflatable door seals

my experience is many years ago . It was on a Arrow 2. It cut down the air noise allot. In my system I had to be inflated using the air bulb provided.

Lee

 

Most of the rubber parts on GA aircraft are junk. They are pretty much stuck in the 1950's with their sealing technology and the wind noise from around the door seals is a lot of what you hear in flight.

Modern door seals in cars are a lot softer and do a much better job of sealing. Too bad somebody doesn't stc a more modern soft rubber seal and you wouldn't need the inflatable ones. Problem is the cost would be hard to recover since people don't change their seals out even if they get really ratty. Then they wonder why they need headsets to keep their hearing.

Probably wouldn't be legal, but you could probably find a better sealing material on the web. You just didn't hear that from me.

 

True, for pressurized airplanes. Seal has holes from inside, as differential pressure increases, cabin pressure inflates the seal/Learjet. Cessna is using different system, with bleed air line attached to the seal. Look to the firewall and structure arround cockpit. Whatever you will do, there is no help. All small prop piston airplanes are more or less efficient mouse sterilizers.

Cheapest way-good headphones.

Marjan