Originally Posted by
ce650
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.