Icing

[Prof. ATP]

Anyone have any idea where I could find some airframe icing at this time of year? I'm doing IOE for a new King Air pilot.

 

[AerroMatt]

Anyone have any idea where I could find some airframe icing at this time of year? I'm doing IOE for a new King Air pilot.

Patagonia perhaps??? I do believe its winter in South America. Just don't know if you wanna travel that far south however... Hehe

 

[ehoulli]

Try the feeder cells around thunderstorms...that's where I found icing last summer doing cloud seeding!!!

 

[learflyer]

Anyone have any idea where I could find some airframe icing at this time of year? I'm doing IOE for a new King Air pilot.

Fly right through a thunderstorm.

 

[minitour]

Really high?

-mini

 

[dhc8fo]

I iced the CRAP our of my 340 last week outside of Cleveland. Caught me off guard since it has been so FREAKING hot everywhere. I guess the visible moisture and -4 temp at FL180 should have clued me in (duh on my part)....chase a front, you will find some ice.

 

[minitour]

I iced the CRAP our of my 340 last week outside of Cleveland. Caught me off guard since it has been so FREAKING hot everywhere. I guess the visible moisture and -4 temp at FL180 should have clued me in (duh on my part)....chase a front, you will find some ice.

Was that last Friday? Cuz I was getting some at around 5k about 30 SE of CLE last Friday afternoon....that was right before the bumps started (TS)....not fun. Thanks again Cleveland Approach...I only asked you three times to verify that there wasn't weather when you started me down...ffaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaantastic.

-mini

 

[tracearabians]

Maybe Alaska. Some friends just returned from a vacation there and reported that trucks already had chains on the tires.

Anyone have any idea where I could find some airframe icing at this time of year? I'm doing IOE for a new King Air pilot.

 

[siucavflight]

Was that last Friday? Cuz I was getting some at around 5k about 30 SE of CLE last Friday afternoon....that was right before the bumps started (TS)....not fun. Thanks again Cleveland Approach...I only asked you three times to verify that there wasn't weather when you started me down...ffaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaantastic.

-mini

I could be wrong but I dont believe that ATCs job is to steer you around weather.

 

[rjacobs]

Really high?

-mini

That wont work since ice is hard to come by above FL250, its just to cold. I dont really agree with playing around thunderstorms because once you go into the clouds around the storm, even with radar, you dont really know what its gonna be like, unless you like to get thrown out the top upside down.

 

[minitour]

I could be wrong but I dont believe that ATCs job is to steer you around weather.

When you ask "isn't that a cell up ahead?" after you've checked with FSS for the past 3 hours and they say "no" three times...then your handoff goes through and the new guy asks for a ride report and gets you out in a hurry....I'd say that was ignorant.

If I hadn't asked three times and been told "no" I wouldn't be pissy.

...but thanks...I hadn't had any sarcasm in about 4 days.

-mini

 

[414Flyer]

Try the feeder cells around thunderstorms...that's where I found icing last summer doing cloud seeding!!!

WMI I would guess?

 

[Trogdor]

Over the Rockies west of Denver. I got some up there the other week.

 

[momalley81]

When you ask "isn't that a cell up ahead?" after you've checked with FSS for the past 3 hours and they say "no" three times...then your handoff goes through and the new guy asks for a ride report and gets you out in a hurry....I'd say that was ignorant.

If I hadn't asked three times and been told "no" I wouldn't be pissy.

...but thanks...I hadn't had any sarcasm in about 4 days.

-mini

Got news for 'ya (and some more sarcasam). Their radar doesn't paint all of it. I've gotten the crap knocked outta me through some scattered TCu that never showed on their scope. No real precip inside, but boy did I want out.

The converse is also true; was blasting through what was being called heavy to extreem precip. Lots of rain and lightning. But smooth enough to peel a tomatoe in.

Only way to garuntee to stay outta the rough stuff is to stay visual when there's embedded convective activity. Or stay on the ground. They might be right 95% of the time, but there is that 5% that can be rough.