Cav ice protection system

[Piloto]

12 hours ago, DVA said:

I'm a fan. I have it on my TLS and use it regularly to get up and down through winter layers. I try to never purposely stay in icing conditions even though the CAV system works well. I will say that the claim of no performance loss is an unfortunate mistruth on behalf of CAV if they indeed told you that. This system will knock off 8-10 knots when you're low. I know of no owner who has seen less who did proper before and after tests. At FL200 it's about 5 knots, but the system is still worth it imho.

TKS will also take about 100 pounds of payload. This would be about 200nm in fuel/range shortage. Depending where you fly it is a trade off. Weather icing conditions conveyed through the internet has improved icing avoidance. I found it to be reliable.

 http://www.aviationweather.gov/icing/fip.

Garmin Pilot icing depiction (for inflight) is also good.

I have taken up to 1" of ice on my M20J with a drop of 10kts but no loss in altitude. At night the ice never melts even in the clear and the speed loss is with you until you find warmer air. Best is to avoid ice or postpone your flight. Cheaper than $50K on TKS.

José

Edited December 13, 2016 by Piloto

[thinwing]

On 12/12/2016 at 6:17 AM, Piloto said:

TKS will also take about 100 pounds of payload. This would be about 200nm in fuel/range shortage. Depending where you fly it is a trade off. Weather icing conditions conveyed through the internet has improved icing avoidance. I found it to be reliable.

 http://www.aviationweather.gov/icing/fip.

Garmin Pilot icing depiction (for inflight) is also good.

I have taken up to 1" of ice on my M20J with a drop of 10kts but no loss in altitude. At night the ice never melts even in the clear and the speed loss is with you until you find warmer air. Best is to avoid ice or postpone your flight. Cheaper than $50K on TKS.

José

A 10 kt airspeed loss on a Mooney wing would have me declaring an emergency

[M016576]

On 12/12/2016 at 6:17 AM, Piloto said:

TKS will also take about 100 pounds of payload. This would be about 200nm in fuel/range shortage. Depending where you fly it is a trade off. Weather icing conditions conveyed through the internet has improved icing avoidance. I found it to be reliable.

 http://www.aviationweather.gov/icing/fip.

Garmin Pilot icing depiction (for inflight) is also good.

I have taken up to 1" of ice on my M20J with a drop of 10kts but no loss in altitude. At night the ice never melts even in the clear and the speed loss is with you until you find warmer air. Best is to avoid ice or postpone your flight. Cheaper than $50K on TKS.

José

Aviationweather.gov's flight path tool is great as well- it does a nice job showing you a crossection of predicted icing and intensity along a route at a bunch of altitudes- and I've found it to be accurate enough to be usable during my daily flights in the pacific NW.  Especially this time of year.

edit- corrected web address

Edited December 15, 2016 by M016576

[carusoam]

This one, Job?

http://aviationweather.gov/

Siri respelled your link?

Best regards,

-a-

[M016576]

6 hours ago, carusoam said:

This one, Job?

http://aviationweather.gov/

Siri respelled your link?

Best regards,

-a-

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