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I flew from San Diego to Las Vegas yesterday (1/9) for a meeting I had at CES. I have always heard stories of people getting incredibly rapid buildup of ice over San Diego but in my 20 years of flying have never seen it. As you can see I experienced some ice. I was in and out of the clouds climbing...
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I was coming out of Chicago the other day and temps were in the high single digits in Celcius and after I got through all of the visible moisture I looked out at my right wing and saw this white looking stuff building up behind the apparently now leaking fuel tank cap. Confounded me for a while as...
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Hey guys, Just wanted to share personal experience for the team. Planned a night ifr flight, no forecast or reported icing. I have no anti ice on the m20k so I am pretty cautious about it. In descent started noticing some vibration in the engine. Was in the mountains so I got ste...
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Combating Icing in General Aviation Aircraft BY SARAH ROVNER, MASTER CFI, CFII, MEI, ATP, OWNER OF FULLTHROTTLE AVIATION LLC January 2018 As winter weather reaches the majority of the United States, it brings a unique set of weather phenomena. The colder temperatures and frozen precipitat...
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I live in SC so not a ton of icing problems most of the year and I have zero experience with it other than knowledge of sorts. What exactly are the conditions to avoid for icing? I'm aware of the freezing level, icing forecasts, super cooled droplets, etc. When should you just plan on not going?...
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I believe this was a NASA video and its in typical government style so be warned. http://youtu.be/j_D8tcnL2uQ
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From the album: N252BH
Moderate rime ice on Dec 2 2013 at Fl190 to Fl210 -
From the album: #ScubaMan's album
We encountered our first trace Icing in our Mooney coming back from Vegas today at Flight Level 180.... -
One of the best tools I've ever found for planning cross country flights is one that it seems few people know about. Go to weather.aero, where you'll find an experimental adds site from faa / ncar (national center for atmospheric research). The site is good, but check out the flight path t...
