Originally Posted by
Jello Biafra
There is no time limitation for engine anti-ice on the 320 series with the LEAP engines. It made me wonder when I heard Boeing was wanting to put a time limit on using engine anti-ice, how would you do that on climb and decent? Ground operations in icing conditions?
Cycle it on and off I suppose. But even so, it's a human factors disaster waiting to happen. Ninth stage bleed air is what? 540 C? A lot of composites start to delaminate pretty quickly at those sorts of temperatures...