On Mon, 28 Jun 2004 10:44:07 -0700, "Peter Duniho"
wrote:

"NW_PILOT" wrote in message
...
Yep, 100% possible I had carb heat on seemed to clear it up a bit then I
decided to descend and it iced up all the way untill engine out with carb
heat on.

But you were descending. Along with using carb heat, one needs to remember
to push the power up every now and then so that the engine is actually
providing enough heat to melt the ice.

Your experience isn't an argument in favor of partial carb heat.

Did someone post the information about the recent British air
authority decision that pilots could not be trusted to properly apply
carb heat and that the situation ought to be taken out of their hands?

The solution, they say, is to make the application of carb heat either
not needed (fuel injection) or automatic, like it was for years before
fuel injection in cars.

Corky Scott