Rowland,
I can comment on (1) below. If you position the cooling bottle on either
footwell, close to the cooling slits on the sides of the upper cowling, the
coolant bottle can be seen through the slits from the outside, by just
shining a flashlight through them. It's a very easy check to verify coolant,
and no special trap door needed.
Regards,
Greg
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(1) On the relatively few installations of which I've got pictures, most
people seem to fit it at the port side on top of the footwell. My present
plan for the layout of the battery and electrics offers space for it on the
starboard side instead. However, either of these locations makes it somewhat
inaccessible for daily checks. My copy of the Rotax Operators Manual says
(inter alia):
"10.3.1) Daily checks
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Verify coolant level in the overflow bottle, replenish as required.
The coolant level must be between max. and min. mark or at least 0.2 litre
(0.4 liq pt)."
It must be near-impossible to see the level in the overflow bottle (in the
typical port footwell location) from the hatch over the expansion tank - how
do other folk comply with this requirement for daily
checks?_________________________
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