On Feb 26, 9:18 pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:
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On Feb 26, 7:44 pm, Bertie the Bunyip wrote:

G1000? What's that? It was a stock 310 but mostly I flew a Twin Beech
around that area. We had boots and electric props on the 310 and boots
and alchohol props and usually alky windscreens on the 18s.

Not many Bonanza's with even that level of deice on board.

Yeah, I remember it well. I never got into any real trouble with ice,
but my boss when I worked in MI did once. He just made it into some
place in Ohio. I did get some in Michigan that caused an engine to
cough, but I managed to clear it. I had also got a lot on the bottom of
the wing holding. I went along with a guy in a 310 once and we got a lot
on the tip tanks which was causing us a lot of grief, but we were never
in the situation where we couldn't hold altitude.
OTOH, I have come down in singles covered with ice more than once!

Bertie

I've been chicken so far this winter. But they're not my airplanes.

Nothing chicken about staying out of ice if you have no de-ice. I should
explain about the icing in singles thing. I was only ever in ice in singles
where there was relatively warm air down low. It comes off quick whenyou
pass the freezing level. You would want a freezing level a good 3 or 4
thousand above the terrain and even then it's not a good idea. I did some
ferrying years ago and the freezing level over the ocean is alwyas at a
reasonable level even in winter. So if you got some ice you went down and
if it wasn't too thick it would come off almost instantly once the OAT was
above freezing. You wouldn't have that luxury in the appalachians, of
course.

Bertie

True.. there's no where I need to be that bad. Buddy Holly and the Big
Bopper proved that Bonanza's and winter don't mix very well.

I'm guessing with the slick airframe the effects of ice are probably
more damaging then to\ something like a 182?