My 9th Wedding Anniversary Trip, To Newport, OR Carb Ice & Real Engine Out "Long"

"Bob Gardner" wrote in message

Ten miles out over the ocean in a 150? Life jackets on board? Could you
have
glided to the beach?

Maybe, but I think the Astoria instrument approach vectors you several miles
off the coast as well. Should jackets be something to include in the
equipment for such a flight?

(I've got a stack of 'em and they don't weigh much, so might as well if I'm
headed that direction, but I've never flown off the coast so far that I
couldn't glide to the beach anyway.)

In any case, life jackets in the Pacific in these parts keep you alive just
long enough for hypothermia to kill you, but it sounds like Steven was on
the ball enough that the Coast Guard would have known where to find him had
he ditched.

-c

"NW_PILOT" wrote in message news:MvqdnT3kkdk-J0LdRVn-

I was just reading a post on google about flying the
150 with a little bit of carb heat on if your in a moist airmass as the
150's carb's really likes to ice up any truth to this? is it wise to
cruise
with a little bit of carb heat on in the conditions I was in today?

I think the use of carb heat is generally binary (on or off), but I have
noticed in the last month that I've had to use carb heat a lot more often
than usual in normal cruise situations.

-c

If you're in conditions where full carb-heat won't prevent carb-ice, what
difference does it make whether you learn that full carb-heat is
insufficient quickly or slowly?


I was taught that, in general, if full carb heat brings the carb temp up to a
point of icing, then using NO carb heat will keep the carb cold enough to avoid
icing. I'm not sure this is true however, but in any case, colder air holds
less water.

Jose

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