Hi,

I'm communicating with a pilot in Germany about building a Y/A F-18 for him and this came up. He isn't enthusiastic about using a split pipe because he's concerned about it being noisier than a single pipe. He sent me this photo of how he planned to install the engine and pipe. For me, this was a jaw-drop moment, but he says this is very common over there.

Have any of you flown like this? How are you dealing with the obvious problems an install like this would cause??