Longfinal wrote:Just make sure you know how to cancel it if it does go off for some reason. In the confines of a cockpit, even with a noise cancelling headset on, it is ear splitting. A false alarm taught me that!
The Fire Angel alarm can be silenced for three minutes by pressing the huge test button: If CO is still about after three minutes it will resume sounding and can be silenced once more: The readout will confirm or deny whether CO is present.
It its a genuine false alarm then one press of the test button will shut it up.
Its worth mentioning that on start up if your windows/door are open and its a touch breezy, enough CO from incomplete combustion can be wafted into the cabin to trigger the alarm.
I believe in early Kitfoxes the design regularly led to significant CO entering the cockpit on start up: this was addressed in later models IIRC.
Peter