Worry about ICE ?? Worry no more...

[Styles]

Kinda cool stuff going on in the EU Optical ICE

 

[FL000]

Put simply, the ACIDS sensor consists of an infrared semiconductor laser, a parallel array of seven optical fibers, some detection electronics and a sapphire window. Light from the laser is coupled into the central fiber and directed onto the glass window. The reflection is picked up by the neighbouring fibers and analyzed. Ice forming on the window alters the intensity pattern of the reflected light.

Thank goodness that was "put simply."

 

[DIRT]

I thought ICE was like "bling bling" you wore around your neck like the guys in all the rap videos.

 

[bart]

Does the sensor then "simply put" the laser to work melting the ice. You can look out the window and know its there, then what do you do?

That's the part I worry about.

 

[ShawnC]

what do you do?

That's the part I worry about.

Do a 360, and get the hell out of there. Or just turn on the boots, or de-ice systems if they are installed.

 

[MetroSheriff]

If you do a 360 won't you be going the same direction as when you started?

I wasn't very good at geometry and stuff so I could be wrong...

 

[js31pilot]

No a 360 will evenly spread the ICE on all surfaces......lmao

 

[ShawnC]

No a 360 will evenly spread the ICE on all surfaces......lmao

So thats why I start dropping like a rock after I do that?

 

[js31pilot]

I fly a Jetsream.....we are used to dropping like a rock lol

 

[MetroSheriff]

A Jetstream can fly???

I always thought they were static displays.

 

[Cardinal]

Leave it to a Brit to come up with a "solution" in the total absence of a problem. Just about any aircaft in which you cannot see a represenative surface will either have monstrous boots or hot leading edges. Did Lawrence not get the memo?

And a 2005 tailplance ice sensing deadline? Note to operators of aircraft without ice protection equipment - Don't get iced up. Do we really need a big red idiot light to remind us of this?

 

[rfeathe1]

Sounds like a lot of hullabolu over nothing to me. Whats wrong with just looking out the window to see if any ice is accumulating? If you can't see the wings turn the nesa off for a few minutes & see if the W/S ices. As previously posted, they have come up with a solution for a non problem. I've always assumed, correctly I think, that anytime the wings are picking up ice the tail is too. It's hard to beat a good set of eyeballs & a set of ice lights at night.

 

[fr0g]

hehe.. well *obviously* the problem in icing realted accidents is that the pilots were unaware they had any ice to begin with! "Hey, why is this thing only climbing at 250fpm.... what's that frosting on the windshield??" OH.. it's ice.. thanks idiot light.. now that I know I have ice, thanks to my multi-spectral-fiberoptic-laser-pattern analyzer, I can inflate the @#$ boots with a million patches and hope it comes off..
(lmao)