Baron cabin temperature control
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With the Bonanza I'm able to control cabin temperature quite easily, however with the Baron (mostly flying at around zero degrees Celsius these days), I often need to turn the heater on and off, and temperature is bouncing up and down like crazy inside the cabin.
It's either a bug, lack of a feature or most probably I'm doing something wrong...
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I've learned more about the temperature control system in specifically the Baron, and I need to improve it with an update. As it is, you shouldn't need to turn the heater on and off, though. The cabin heat pull-knob on the bottom left of the panel is used to control the admittance of heated air into the cabin. Here's the relevant section of the manual:
The cabin is heated via a combustion heater in the aircraft’s nose, and funneled to the cabin via
the “CABIN HEAT” pull knob under the pilot’s subpanel. The combustion heater is ignited with
the “HTR” switch, and will consume fuel from the left main tank only at a rate of about one-half
gallon per hour. The exchanged air can be very hot, so operators should take caution when
applying the cabin heat to reduce pilot workload during critical phases of flight, and also to limit
the possibility of a cabin fire. The rate of heating is controlled via the cabin vents and heater
blower, as with equalization and air conditioning.Do not confuse "rate of heating/cooling" (rate of change) with the target temperature. Turn on the combustion heater to enable heating, and then pull the cabin heat pull-handle until the cabin is at your desired temperature. If it's too hot, push the knob back in.
