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mike734
02-15-2012, 08:02 PM
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-RV2O4s3dwbU/TzyMWNdTWbI/AAAAAAAAADg/2QwDTEVfwH0/s551/2012-02-15
https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-fBIKMg-Tt7k/TzyMWNaxzxI/AAAAAAAAADg/QI3RaYslHwc/s551/2012-02-15
Tankerhead
02-16-2012, 02:08 AM
A little wing and tail heat, and she's ready to blast for sunny Orlando!
ce650
02-16-2012, 03:11 AM
A few years back I was going into KGRR, tower says just light mixed on the approach reported by a DC-9 ahead, no big deal..
As were comming down the ILS in the snap of your fingers the window is covered! We cracked the boots 3 times down the slope and there was a buzzing (loud) somewhere in the ceiling of the cockpit..Turns out it was ice on the antenna buzzing in the windstream! I have never seen ice that bad
mike734
02-16-2012, 08:28 AM
A few years back I was going into KGRR, tower says just light mixed on the approach reported by a DC-9 ahead, no big deal..
As were comming down the ILS in the snap of your fingers the window is covered! We cracked the boots 3 times down the slope and there was a buzzing (loud) somewhere in the ceiling of the cockpit..Turns out it was ice on the antenna buzzing in the windstream! I have never seen ice that bad
I've never had it that bad. I guess you'd have to call that extreme. The photos above we're taken after about 2 hours of light freezing rain. I remember about 10 years ago there was so much freezing rain the tires were welded to the ground until it melted.
Left Handed
02-17-2012, 10:13 AM
Oh, just polish it down with your hand and go. What's the big deal.
ramprodent
02-20-2012, 03:44 PM
Oh, just polish it down with your hand and go. What's the big deal.
I used to work the ramp at a small outstation with no deicing equipment in a temperate part of the country. A few times a year we would have a plane come down with some ice on the bottom of the wing and the mechanics/pilots would delay until it melted on it's own. I always offered to just bring over the jetway/plane air connection tube and melt it by putting the air on warm. They were rarely amused :D.
rocketman3746
02-20-2012, 04:22 PM
This could turn into a fun thread. Here's a severe clear ice/SLD encounter I had on my way to RUT last winter. Went from light mixed ice to 2 inches of nice, heavy, clear ice in about 60 seconds (I think) and thanks to Murphy's law, the valve for the boots froze up just then too. Obviously I was too busy at the time to take any pictures, but after 30 minutes or so on terra firma, I went out to see if anything was left on the airplane and found this... (hard to tell, but the ice is about 1 inch thick on the most forward part of the nose.)
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-gTo7yj573Bs/T0LvE_DN5aI/AAAAAAAAAD0/8TbFIWB0AOk/s640/P1010976.JPG
9kBud
02-20-2012, 09:22 PM
I was wondering how long it would take for a 9k 402 driver to chime in...
Grumble
02-21-2012, 01:01 AM
Only reason to pick up ice:
http://justglasssite.com/glass-pics/whiskey-13.jpg
rocketman3746
02-21-2012, 03:30 AM
I was wondering how long it would take for a 9k 402 driver to chime in...
lol, not long! No one knows ice like we do! You still work here 9kBud?
9kBud
02-21-2012, 04:13 AM
lol, not long! No one knows ice like we do! You still work here 9kBud?
yup yup, but now I'm based in one of our ice free regions. I know who you are, and it's not too difficult to figure out who I am. At least I don't think it's that big a secret.
