Airline pilot Full Time RV
Hey everyone, I have done enough research to say I am very excited about the prospect of Full time RVing. I was hoping to get some opinions of experienced RVers about the specific problems I migh...
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Welcome! From one Pittsburgher to another. Let me say a few things that you might not want to hear. If you are planning to full-time and live in your RV in this area, in the winter, I think you will run into trouble. Others have posted about the temps dropping into the teens a bit, but you know and I know that it is not unusual for temps to drop below zero here, and there have been times that for an entire month it has not gone over 20 degrees. RVs are not well insulated and they get cold, fast.
If you want heat, you have a couple of options. Stay at a campground, if any are open, and hook up to electric and run small heaters. Or, stay somewhere without hookups, and run your generator all night, to power the electric heaters. This is noisy and eats gas. Or, use the RV on board furnace to heat your rig. The furnace usually burns propane and eats it up in gobs, and you need charged house batteries to control the furnace or thermostat. By morning, your house batteries will likely be drained pretty low. So, you need to charge them up somehow.
Then, there is maintaining the black and gray tanks, and dumping your waste in cold temps. What do you do if the valves freeze? Not pleasant.
Finally, given your profession, I want to make sure you get a good nights sleep. I don't want you to be cold, tired, and miserable if you flying the next day.
Sorry to be a downer, but I think I told it how it is.
Best wishes, Bob
If you want heat, you have a couple of options. Stay at a campground, if any are open, and hook up to electric and run small heaters. Or, stay somewhere without hookups, and run your generator all night, to power the electric heaters. This is noisy and eats gas. Or, use the RV on board furnace to heat your rig. The furnace usually burns propane and eats it up in gobs, and you need charged house batteries to control the furnace or thermostat. By morning, your house batteries will likely be drained pretty low. So, you need to charge them up somehow.
Then, there is maintaining the black and gray tanks, and dumping your waste in cold temps. What do you do if the valves freeze? Not pleasant.
Finally, given your profession, I want to make sure you get a good nights sleep. I don't want you to be cold, tired, and miserable if you flying the next day.
Sorry to be a downer, but I think I told it how it is.
Best wishes, Bob
