Dead simple - fit a mud guard to the wheel. I have had one fitted since new,
I fly from a very wet grass strip all year round and never get any mud
inside the wheel well let alone the interior. In 5 years of flying I have
only cleaned the wheel well three times, and that only entailed a wipe over
with a sponge and cloth, whilst I have had mud an inch thick on the
underside of the fuselage after some flights.
>
> It's winter, it's cold, it's overcast again, and it's been raining in the
> driest
> part of the country for the last five months !
>
> All the grass airstrips in my area including my own, are sodden and barely
> useable.
>
> ....... and every time I take off, my newly polished windscreen and panel
> are
> smeared with a coating of fresh mud entering the cockpit via the wheel
well.
>
> It gains access through the monowheel undercarriage retract lever.
>
> During the summer, dried grass and mud accumulates around the fuel
> tank selector.
>
> There must be an answer to this seamingly trivial, yet highly irritating
> problem...
>
> Any suggestions, anyone ?
>
> Alan
>
> On the subject of the 'Foot and Mouth' NOTAMS, could it be that in the
> absence
> of antiseptic baths across every local farmstrip, there is some danger of
> contamination on the wheels of aircraft flying inter-county ? Perhaps that
> is the
> primary fear.
>
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