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Colyn,
Where do you live? I live in the Detroit area and fly all winter long.
My last 3 flights to North Carolina had ice above me and south. I had to fly north 30 miles, climb above it and then head on south.
I am stopped once or twice a year but not much more. I don't touch ice with my plane. Even a very slight "frost" on the leading edge slows the plane about 30 knots.
My last plane was a C-340 with known icing. I had it for 2 years flew winter and summer and maybe once saw ice.
I wish that I had deice equipment but if I put any more equipment on the plane, I don't think that it could get off the ground. I just landed in NC and took off at 1,900 lbs. Very heavy for a LNC2. Compromises, compromises.
Lorn
From: "colyncase on earthlink" <colyncase@earthlink.net>
Date: December 15, 2006 12:18:40 AM EST
What are the rules regarding known icing and experimentals.
I don't know the real answer to that but I THINK the answer is
you'll never get an experimental approved for known icing.
Part of (the main part) of known icing certification as it was explained
to me is that the airplane has to continue flying xx (20?) minutes after
a complete de-ice system failure at yy droplet size at zz accumulation rate.
I'd guess that's a flunk for any skinny wing plastic airplane.
On the other hand, where I live, you are not going anywhere in the winter without
going through a few thousand feet of cloud that is in the ice making temp range.
Leaving out the freezing rain days, clear ice days, and ice to the ground days,
de-ice capability would make an operational difference.
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Lorn H. 'Feathers' Olsen, MAA, DynaComm, Corp.
248-345-0500, mailto:lorn@dynacomm.ws
LNC2, O-320-D1F, 1,200 hrs, N31161, Y47, SE Michigan
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