Inflatable Door Seal Discount

[tomgo2]

FYI - Bob Fields Inflatable Door Seals is offering a $75 discount on all Mooney door seals to Mooneyspace users at www.aerocessories.aero.

Be sure to use discount code MS2025 to claim the discount.

[Tester22]

Can anyone provide their thoughts regarding adding this mod? Benefits? Manual vs deluxe vs electric? 

[Fly Boomer]

14 minutes ago, Tester22 said:

Can anyone provide their thoughts regarding adding this mod? Benefits? Manual vs deluxe vs electric? 

Our doors don’t usually fit very well.  If yours is drafty or noisy, the inflatable seal is nice.  You do have to pay attention to keep from damaging it.  

[Tester22]

Thanks for the quick response. I’m assuming you mean you have to be a bit more careful during ingress and egress so as not to damage the inflatable seal, correct? If so, do you find it’s a bit more cumbersome getitng in and out with the seal installed?

[Gee Bee Aeroproducts]

Mooney did not design the Door with a foot groove channel for the seal to deflate into .

All inflatable doors have a third latch and the door is made very strong to support the Assy as stress is now put on the hinges .

The second to last picture is the rain seal , all new model aircraft that are pressurized have a rain seal .

The purpose of the rain seal is to channel the water around the door as the seal is not inflated in the static mode.

Without a rain seal , water can seep into the Cabin.

next time you board a jet , look at the rain seal above the cabin doors.

last picture is the oem seal to the left with collapsed foam .

I fitted two different versions of a softer silicone seal for a perfect fitment based on the design of the door as I purchased a cabin and baggage door.

The direction of the seal is important based on what door .

P seal bulb 

This new seal fits both cabin and baggage, want seal made in your design or color, just ask .

Questions?

 

Just ask 

 

Edited January 24 by Gee Bee Aeroproducts

[slowflyin]

11 hours ago, Tester22 said:

Can anyone provide their thoughts regarding adding this mod? Benefits? Manual vs deluxe vs electric? 

I've had the manual on two different Mooney and like it.  Manual allows you to feel how much pressure your applying.  The install is simpler as well. 

[dkkim73]

Thinking about this... Have an annual coming up. I have a small main door leak and it could bear on some intermittent CO levels. 

For those who've done the install, how tricky is it? (I know you have to keep checking the position) 

For those who've hired it out, any tips? How important to have some who knows Mooneys specifically. 

[Fly Boomer]

12 hours ago, Tester22 said:

Thanks for the quick response. I’m assuming you mean you have to be a bit more careful during ingress and egress so as not to damage the inflatable seal, correct? If so, do you find it’s a bit more cumbersome getitng in and out with the seal installed?

If you open the door with the seal inflated, you are likely to damage the seal.  Especially in warmer weather, everybody in the airplane wants to get the door open immediately after landing.  I have a policy (and pre-flight brief) that says "unless I'm dead or we are on fire, nobody touches the door" but me.

[LANCECASPER]

15 hours ago, Tester22 said:

Can anyone provide their thoughts regarding adding this mod? Benefits? Manual vs deluxe vs electric? 

 

[Will.iam]

On 1/24/2025 at 10:55 AM, dkkim73 said:

Thinking about this... Have an annual coming up. I have a small main door leak and it could bear on some intermittent CO levels. 

For those who've done the install, how tricky is it? (I know you have to keep checking the position) 

For those who've hired it out, any tips? How important to have some who knows Mooneys specifically. 

Dougosh did mine the first annual i had my plane and it’s awesome. The difference in wind noise and drafts between when it’s inflated and not is amazing. If you take a piece of paper and put it on the seam of the closed door in flight and it sticks you have a draft between the door and cabin. I generally dump the air pressure on short final so that i do not forget and open the door after landing with the seal still inflated. It always amazes the passenger just how much loader the wind noise is with the seal deflated.  

[Fly Boomer]

On 1/26/2025 at 5:39 PM, Will.iam said:

I generally dump the air pressure on short final so that i do not forget and open the door after landing with the seal still inflated.

Excellent idea -- I'm stealing this one.

[Schllc]

While i realize that over inflating the seal could possibly damage the door hinge.  I have used these systems in a mooney before an it is not hard to keep from over inflation.

just get to altitude and pump till the noise stops.  The seals are very flexible and will not cause harmful pressure on the door.

I have tried all the door seals available, tweaked endlessly and added supplemental weather-stripping and had improvement, but nothing like the inflatable seal.

I am installing one in my plane in two weeks.  

[Gee Bee Aeroproducts]

If the door has a channel for the seal to sit in then it’s correct seal per the door , just because someone wrote a stc / pma doesn’t mean it’s correct per the airframe.

 

At what value point of the aircraft do you install correct seal ?

GB

Your welcome to contact Jim Klug at DBM who rebuilds door hinges for 6/8k on Beechcraft models from problems associated with these installations.

 

He removes all inflatable door seals on inspection.

I stock various inflatable door seals per tso holders for aircraft that are supplied with inflatable door seals and rain seals .

Cargo or Baggage seal with fabric per ams3345 .