Icy Day

Not too bad. That is KI is it not?

When I used to rent I went to get the 172S our of the hangar. It flew the night before and it still had 1" of ice all along the leading edge!
 
Lots of ice on the West Coast today, too. We were coming back from the LA area; no ice until we were 50 miles from home, and then some light rime in the descent.

If I learned something today, it's that ice + IMC + HSI failure isn't the best combination....

-Felix
 
scott - yes its FIKI certified. only the unprotected areas had the ice. agree that it was not too bad of a buildup. Im not sure if the unprotected areas were cleaned off at an intermediate spot about 40 miles from home, so hard to tell what the true buildup rates were.
 
sba55 said:
Lots of ice on the West Coast today, too. We were coming back from the LA area; no ice until we were 50 miles from home, and then some light rime in the descent.

If I learned something today, it's that ice + IMC + HSI failure isn't the best combination....

-Felix
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Mercy me. Agreed.

I am ____-retentive about redundancy, which is why I have electric- and air-powered AI and DG (electric HSI and air DG).

Plus S-Tec 30.
 
yea the ice 'ticking' takes a little getting used to at first. the glowing turbos is pretty cooool.
 
SCCutler said:
Mercy me. Agreed.

I am ____-retentive about redundancy, which is why I have electric- and air-powered AI and DG (electric HSI and air DG).

Plus S-Tec 30.
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Agreed. An air DG would be have been nice to have. We still had the AI and the #2 CDI, but to be honest, hand-flying in IMC and light ice without a DG/HSI just isn't fun.

The autopilot was the real issue for me. Without the HSI, it becomes more or less unusable (it will hold whatever heading you last had the heading bug on, but since you can't move the heading bug anymore, that doesn't help for too long). What was difficult was the sudden transition from the autopilot to hand-flying and, of course, the HSI didn't fail until we were just about to intercept the localizer and below some mountains that were just to the north of us...

I ended up telling ATC that we needed no-gyro vectors. I figured that was easier than explaining the HSI issue.

-Felix
 
Those are great photos, and very interesting to see! That ice doesn't look too bad, but having zero experience with ice that's just a guess.

In my instructor's Navajo, you can see the exhuast glow in cruise once it gets darker out. I can't remember if I could see the turbos or not, I think they were visible if you moved around enough to get the correct angle to look through the little vents.

The glowing exhaust is really cool, at least to me.

Thanks for sharing, Tony. :)
 
Cool pics tony. Ice can be pretty spookie.

I was driving home the other day and almost became a Semi and truck sandwich. Someone slammed on their brakes and he had nowhere to go except my lane. screeching tires and sliding to the side is not a pretty feeling.
 
Ted - I'd say that ice didnt look to bad because the boots had blown it all off the wings and tail. 3/4" on all surfaces would not have been any fun.
 
tonycondon said:
Ted - I'd say that ice didnt look to bad because the boots had blown it all off the wings and tail. 3/4" on all surfaces would not have been any fun.
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Definitely, but I was making note of the fact that your plane had deicing on it. Sorry if that wasn't clear. :)
 
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