Stupid Ice

[fantom]

Are you old enough to move to florida? I heard they check your aarp card before they let you in.

I suggest you get your hearing checked....but wait till the thaw

[Marauder]

Problem with snow where you are is its too warm for snow! You get thaw-freeze cycles. We are so old it mostly just stays light and fluffy.

Are you old enough to move to florida? I heard they check your aarp card before they let you in.

I'm a card carrying member... Just can't remember where I left the card...

[bonal]

Weather here is not so great today by our standards that means kind of breezy mostly clear and temps in the low 60's tomorrow is supposed to be much nicer so I think we will take Snoopy out for a stretch then. Looks like we're in another drought year which is bad and the weather experts say your freezing ass weather is because of our draught here. Hope things get better for all you guys so you can get your birds back up soon.

[aviatoreb]

I'm a card carrying member... Just can't remember where I left the card...

 

What were we talking about again?

[carusoam]

-m- got the aarp card earlier in the year (past 365 days to be exact)...

Need to get the research started for the warmer Mooney fly-in community on the east coast....

My berm is only 6" deep this year, but it's 6' wide. Looking for a warm day.

Best regards,

-a-

[carl]

Marauder, on 28 Feb 2015 - 2:58 PM, said:

I just got back from the airport. It is ABSOLUTELY beautiful today and I was looking forward to a nice flight. Show up at the hangar and am greeted with 10 inches of solid ice along the entire track system. Looks like all the snow on the hangar roof melted and dripped down and refroze in front of the doors.
I keep telling the wife... FLORIDA, FLORIDA, FLORIDA!!!!! I am SO done with this crap.

 

 

 

Exactly with me . chopped for hours , finally said wait for spring. 

[Marauder]

Well, I guess I shouldn't complain too much. Family sent some pictures of themselves shoveling off their roofs.

[Hank]

-m- got the aarp card earlier in the year (past 365 days to be exact)...

Need to get the research started for the warmer Mooney fly-in community on the east coast....

My burn is only 6" deep this year, but it's 6' wide. Looking for a warm day.

Best regards,

-a-

Talk to Gus. There was a house for sale in his Airpark south of Atlanta recently. Grass strip, fuel and a restaurant, lots of pilots, etc.

[Andy95W]

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Just got mine today from Amazon. Difference between flying today and not being able to move the airplane!

[Mcstealth]

You are a genius. I've got some black gas pipe laying around from the remodel project. I know what I will be doing this weekend.

"You are a genius."

 

 

Now I wouldn't go that far............

[Hector]

I'm from south Florida I just came here to laugh

I did laugh as well being from Florida too......until you decide to visit a buddy up north and a couple of days later when it's time to leave you show up at the airport in the morning and there are 5 inches of snow on the ground and no preheat for the engine and you look stupid trying to figure out what to do but have no clue how to get your plane out of this mess and you are freezing your ass off and too embarrassed to ask the locals and seriously contemplating setting the plane on fire and wondering how these people live this way........

[aviatoreb]

I did laugh as well being from Florida too......until you decide to visit a buddy up north and a couple of days later when it's time to leave you show up at the airport in the morning and there are 5 inches of snow on the ground and no preheat for the engine and you look stupid trying to figure out what to do but have no clue how to get your plane out of this mess and you are freezing your ass off and too embarrassed to ask the locals and seriously contemplating setting the plane on fire and wondering how these people live this way........

 

Come back in August.  I can't tell you how miserable I am in the deep South in August.  Whether my Grandma in Florida, or work colleagues in Hunstville, AL, they know that I refuse to visit them during the summer months.  I melt - maybe I am a snowman.

 

Seriously though - if that happens again - ask for help.  The FBO is there to help (at a price).  They can preheat for you.  They can even deice for you (at a bigger price).  If I fly to an away field in the winter, I am careful to choose one that has preheat service, and possibly a transient hangar.

[Hector]

Come back in August. I can't tell you how miserable I am in the deep South in August. Whether my Grandma in Florida, or work colleagues in Hunstville, AL, they know that I refuse to visit them during the summer months. I melt - maybe I am a snowman.

Seriously though - if that happens again - ask for help. The FBO is there to help (at a price). They can preheat for you. They can even deice for you (at a bigger price). If I fly to an away field in the winter, I am careful to choose one that has preheat service, and possibly a transient hangar.

I did ask the FBO for preheat but they did not have the equipment (small FBO, but I thought this would be pretty standard equipment up north). The snow they did take care of a couple of hours later. It all got worked out at the end but I was miserable in the freezing cold. Hated to start the engine at those temps, but no other choice.

[aviatoreb]

I did ask the FBO for preheat but they did not have the equipment (small FBO, but I thought this would be pretty standard equipment up north). The snow they did take care of a couple of hours later. It all got worked out at the end but I was miserable in the freezing cold. Hated to start the engine at those temps, but no other choice.

 

What I meant is I typically call ahead as part of choosing which field to fly to if preheat and possibly ice control is called for.  Just like on all times of the year I call ahead to choose an airfield where I can get a rental car if I need one.  I mean I will not start my engine cold if it is 10F no matter how much of a hurry I am in.  I can handle de-ice myself with a brush and a little squirt bottle of tks fluid, but heat you just need.  I will drive a few extra miles from the less closer field with a good fbo rather than the nearer one without, rather than risk finding myself in a position of needing a cold start, or heat that is not available.

 

In the long run I need to get a little Honda generator to plug in to my installed turbo rieff heater.