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Originally Posted by MuseChaser
The absolute WORST pea-soup fog I've ever seen was down on the Outer Banks in North Carolina, between 4:30am - 6:00am. I could barely see the front of my car, much less more than a few feet of road. Not fun.
WAY off topic.. was at my home base airport a few days ago, and a guy had just come in from Long Island in a small twin... had wing boots, but still he left PILES of 1" thick ice on the tarmac after flying in. I didn't sleep that night, just thinking about it. You professional dudes have my respect; ice scares the crap outta me.
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He probably didn't sleep that night either. I only fly the club planes VFR in the winter unless it's abnormally warm. At work, in the PC12 we have boots, which are OK as long as the icing is only moderate. They fail though sometimes probably more often than any other system (usually only little section but still). The CJ3 we have heated wings... knock on wood but I have yet to see ice that can beat them. You turn those bad boys on and within 5 seconds the ice just shears off the wing. They also almost never fail because it's just hot bleed air heating a metal leading edge instead of some balloon thing that has to inflate and deflate. The $10 million dollar jets I get to play with at work certainly have some little advantages over the $100k piston singles that I can afford to fly for fun.
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