You're at cruise working on your laptop when...

spoolinup22

spoolinup22

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The battery of the laptop becomes overheated and catches on fire.

SR-22T, 12,500, VFR Weather, closest towered airport is 25nm, closest non towered is 10, you're the sole occupant of the airplane
 
Cessnaflyer said:
Throw it out the window. Or dump water on it to cool it off ;)
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Does an SR-22 have a big enough window to fit the lap top out? With it on fire, I doubt you'll be able to get the battery off without some severe burns. can you get their doors open enough to jam it out?
 
spoolinup22 said:
The battery of the laptop becomes overheated and catches on fire.

SR-22T, 12,500, VFR Weather, closest towered airport is 25nm, closest non towered is 10, you're the sole occupant of the airplane
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10 miles in an SR-22? That's what, 4 minutes at VNE? No freaking way can a single laptop battery take a SR-22 down in less than 10 minutes. Heck, I don't think a single laptop battery could take the plane down at all.
 
KSCessnaDriver said:
10 miles in an SR-22? That's what, 4 minutes at VNE? No freaking way can a single laptop battery take a SR-22 down in less than 10 minutes. Heck, I don't think a single laptop battery could take the plane down at all.
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.... right but the smoke could take down the pilot, couldn't it?
 
KSCessnaDriver said:
Have you ever seen a single laptop battery burn? It's really not that bad. Throw it in the back, land the airplane.
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I've seen a number of electrical fires, but not a single laptop battery. If it's anything like the battery burn they show in recurrent I relive my paint thinner catching on fire in the garage memory from a couple years back. Brutal, noxious and debilitating.

I can tell you all if it gets anything close to that smoke in the cockpit I'm tossing that sucker out the door as carefully as I can so it doesn't hit the plane on the way out.
 
Unless the cockpit of a -22 is made of fire proof material, a single laptop battery has plenty of fuel fuel around it.
Water wouldn't do much of anything in this kind of fire.
 
eightballfreight said:
Unless the cockpit of a -22 is made of fire proof material, a single laptop battery has plenty of fuel fuel around it.
Water wouldn't do much of anything in this kind of fire.
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Sure it does. I'm saying if my choices are a laptop battery on fire or an engine on fire, I'm taking the laptop battery. Yes, its going to burn, but its not going to accelerate so quickly that you couldn't get the thing to the ground.
 
eightballfreight said:
Unless the cockpit of a -22 is made of fire proof material, a single laptop battery has plenty of fuel fuel around it.
Water wouldn't do much of anything in this kind of fire.
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That's why the SR22/T have a fire extinguisher mounted near the left ankle of the pilot, on the left side of the aircraft. Would it be 100% effective in this case? Hard to say, but it sure as hell beats having nothing.

As somebody who flies these things professionally on a daily basis, this really isn't that difficult.

1. Maintain aircraft control, analyze the situation
2. Company emergency memory items for cabin fire (which includes use of the fire extinguisher)
3. Land as soon as possible.


Matt13C said:
Does an SR-22 have a big enough window to fit the lap top out? With it on fire, I doubt you'll be able to get the battery off without some severe burns. can you get their doors open enough to jam it out?
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The windows are an integrated part of the upward swinging doors, and cannot be "opened". The doors themselves swing upward and outward, and are incredibly difficult to open in flight, even at lower airspeeds. Not only that, the gymnastics required to juggle a burning laptop while simultaneously trying to force the door open wide enough to drop the thing out doesn't seem like a good idea to me.
 
Jimmy_Norton said:
But that wasn't the original question.
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Does it really matter? The laptop could technically be in standby mode in your luggage when it caught fire. The pilot wouldn't necessarily have to be hacking away at the keyboard when the laptop erupts into flames.

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