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fact that it’s pressurized means the cabin is sealed up much better, reducing wind noise and air leaks and greatly reducing the cabin’s ambient noise levels. The forward cabin door for the front two seats has an inflatable door seal, driven by an electric motor located under the nose baggage compartment floor. The rear door uses the cabin pressurization to help push its passive seal towards the door for a tighter fit. Gone are the leaky side windows, doubling as emergency exits. Better insulation to protect occupants from the cold outside air at altitude further boosts this enhancement.
Nearly all of the P-Barons have the long-range fuel option of 196 total gallons. This gives the airplane approximately 4.5 hours of endurance. To accommodate the expanded tanks, the landing lights are not placed outboard on the wings but are located on the cowling chin pieces. Most 58Ps also have factory air conditioning, a rarity in straight Barons of the day. Next, the pressurized air coming into the cabin is tapped off the turbocharged air, meaning it is already warmed significantly due to the compression of the turbo. This makes the cabin warmer, even without running the heater. This free heat can also be selected to run through a heat exchanger to cool it when the warm air is not desirable. But, at altitude, the tight cabin, warm pressurized air and combustion heater, working together, make the cabin very comfortable indeed.
Another huge plus is the fact that most of the pressurized versions are approved for flight in known icing conditions. This wasn’t even an option in the straight 58 until well into the 1980’s; their earlier certification preceded FIKI. The known-icing 58Ps come equipped with hot props and a windshield hot plate, full deice boots, and heated pitot tubes, stall warning vane and fuel vents.
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