Iced up Cirrus crashes

Viperdoc wrote:

However, in severe conditions I would not want to trust my
life to the supposition that TKS makes me invincible.

I cannot imagine there is any technology that makes a pilot "invincible."

Even a condom is not 100% failsafe.


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Peter













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On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:09:14 -0500, "Peter R."
wrote:

Viperdoc wrote:

However, in severe conditions I would not want to trust my
life to the supposition that TKS makes me invincible.

I cannot imagine there is any technology that makes a pilot "invincible."

Two or three years ago a professor here at the engineering school of
Dartmouth developed a deicing technique that he was claiming would
work on just about anything including tires, windshields, airplane
wings, or whatever.

It involved running a type of low voltage charge through the object.
The charge causes ice to outgas so that it cannot gain a purchase on
the object. It either slides off or is blown off.

I asked where this project was a year ago or so and was told that it
was now in the hands of private companies who are working on making it
a viable product.

Corky Scott

Corky Scott wrote:

On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 14:09:14 -0500, "Peter R."
wrote:

Viperdoc wrote:

However, in severe conditions I would not want to trust my
life to the supposition that TKS makes me invincible.

I cannot imagine there is any technology that makes a pilot "invincible."

Two or three years ago a professor here at the engineering school of
Dartmouth developed a deicing technique that he was claiming would
work on just about anything including tires, windshields, airplane
wings, or whatever.

It involved running a type of low voltage charge through the object.
The charge causes ice to outgas so that it cannot gain a purchase on
the object. It either slides off or is blown off.

I asked where this project was a year ago or so and was told that it
was now in the hands of private companies who are working on making it
a viable product.

Perhaps, but my point is that no matter how foolproof a product might be,
if it requires any pilot input it will have the potential to fail the
pilot. This is certainly true in GA, where cost and other reasons limit
the type of technology that makes it to market.

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Peter













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