ppragman
FLIPY FLAPS!
I didn't bother to read all of the above, but if you may want to think about painting the top of your wings black or some other dark color like that. It really helps a lot in the winter.
very true
I didn't bother to read all of the above, but if you may want to think about painting the top of your wings black or some other dark color like that. It really helps a lot in the winter.
I didn't bother to read all of the above, but if you may want to think about painting the top of your wings black or some other dark color like that. It really helps a lot in the winter.
i don't know what document it is exactly, but they stated that it is no longer acceptable to polish frost or ice off the wings and nothing can be adhering to the surface.
exactly my pointThe FAA issued a SAFO a few years ago regarding frost polishing. It says frost can be polished smooth...but ONLY in conjunction with the manufacturers' approved procedures.
As far as I know, no operator issues approved procedures for frost polishing.
So essentially, the practice is illegal.
Those Duchess windscreens are cheap plastic saran-wrap quality POS's. I had one crack when we turned on the heat shortly after takeoff.Careful where you spray that stuff...we cracked a Duchess windscreen a few years ago because someone thought that hot deice fluid would clean it off better than cold deice fluid.
Someone said earlier that "ice and frost will cause 40% of your life to be lost." Not true, a categorical statement like that shows someone who doesn't know about how ice works. Ice is not predictable. You can't say "ice will make you crash," or "ice will do this or that." Because you can't show that it will. Ice is, by its very nature, unpredictable, and being ready to roll with the punches in flight, and make intelligent decisions on the ground are the key to operating in it. .
You made the right choice.
Isn't it better to be on the ground, wishing you were in the air, than being in the air, wishing you were on the ground? (Like your avatar picture).
*shrug*. I've seen pretty serious ice on enough occasions that I'll keep my own council. If I wait until there's half an inch and hit the boots, it falls off (mostly). If I pop them when I first see the ice, there will be ice that doesn't come off, and the ice that piles on to that will not go away no matter how many cycles the boots do. Whatever you call it, more ice=bad, less ice=good. Maybe it's a myth and I ought to listen to a bunch of a dudes on the ground with a computer model, but waiting to hit the boots until there's enough ice to actually fall off has kept me alive this long. You'll forgive me if I keep doing it, I hope.