Nasa Icing courses

As many of you probably know, recent midwest weather has been a steady
stream of low overcast, misty, and foggy days prohibiting most VFR flight
and making IFR flights a spin of the icing roulette wheel. I thought it may
be a good opportunity for us to review NASA's icing online courses.

http://aircrafticing.grc.nasa.gov/courses.html

Jim

("Jim Burns" wrote)
As many of you probably know, recent midwest weather has been a steady
stream of low overcast, misty, and foggy days prohibiting most VFR flight
and making IFR flights a spin of the icing roulette wheel. I thought it
may be a good opportunity for us to review NASA's icing online courses.

http://aircrafticing.grc.nasa.gov/courses.html


"The streak of cloudy days continues. If it weren't for about 2 hours of
filtered sun on New Years Day this would be the 14th completely cloudy day
in a row."

http://www.crh.noaa.gov/crnews/display_story.php?wfo=mpx&storyid=1047&source=0
NOAA - Persistent Lack of Sunshine in the Twin Cities

http://www.kare11.com/weather/weather_article.aspx?storyid=115912
Local news blip


Montblack

: "The streak of cloudy days continues. If it weren't for about 2 hours of
: filtered sun on New Years Day this would be the 14th completely cloudy day
: in a row."

Hey... that little window let me fly home (Wisconsin-Virginia) on New Year's
Day.... Take what you can get!

-Cory

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* Cory Papenfuss *
* Electrical Engineering candidate Ph.D. graduate student *
* Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University *
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Hey... that little window let me fly home (Wisconsin-Virginia) on New
Year's
Day.... Take what you can get!

Hey, we flew VFR from Iowa City to Janesville, WI (and back) last Sunday.

The last 45 minutes were, um, interesting. The temperature and dew points
began to converge, as the sun began to set, and sky conditions dropped from
11,000 broken to a very optimistic 1300 overcast -- across a 250 mile wide
stretch of terrain -- in about 20 minutes. It was the most widespread
deterioration I've ever seen.

I was glad to be on the ground at the end of that flight. We were still
legal VFR, but visibility was 5 miles or less, and nasty icing was occurring
less than a thousand feet up.

Other than that, we haven't flown diddly squat in weeks. Our last fly-in
guest was sometime around Thanksgiving. Worst flying weather I've ever
seen.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Please don't crosspost to *every* aviation newsgroup.

Scott Draper wrote:

Please don't crosspost to *every* aviation newsgroup.


You mean, Like you just did?

Jim Burns wrote:
I didn't post to rec.aviation or rec.aviation.homebuilts, or
alt.binaries.pictures.aviation, or probably a half dozen others.
If you don't think my post was relevant to each group that I posted to,
you're wrong. Not everyone receives or subscribes to *every* newsgroup.

Jim

"Scott Draper" wrote in message
...

Please don't crosspost to *every* aviation newsgroup.



That's exactly the point. We have multiple groups so we can chose what
we DO NOT want to receive. And then you defeat that mechanism by
blasting out to many groups. What you have to say is not so important
that you need to do that. Just stick to the group that fits best.

If you don't like that, start a movement to get rid of all but ONE
NEWSGROUP.

To me the Icing topic is entirely relevant to all the newsgroups it was
posted to. Jim has been posting to this NG for a long time and I for one
trust his judgment in regard to his posting techniques. Just my .02 and
of course YMMV.

Jon Kraus
'79 Mooney 201
4443H @ TYQ

Stubby wrote:
Jim Burns wrote:

I didn't post to rec.aviation or rec.aviation.homebuilts, or
alt.binaries.pictures.aviation, or probably a half dozen others.
If you don't think my post was relevant to each group that I posted to,
you're wrong. Not everyone receives or subscribes to *every* newsgroup.

Jim

"Scott Draper" wrote in message
...

Please don't crosspost to *every* aviation newsgroup.



That's exactly the point. We have multiple groups so we can chose what
we DO NOT want to receive. And then you defeat that mechanism by
blasting out to many groups. What you have to say is not so important
that you need to do that. Just stick to the group that fits best.

If you don't like that, start a movement to get rid of all but ONE
NEWSGROUP.

Jay Honeck wrote:
Hey... that little window let me fly home (Wisconsin-Virginia) on New
Year's
Day.... Take what you can get!


Hey, we flew VFR from Iowa City to Janesville, WI (and back) last Sunday.

The last 45 minutes were, um, interesting. The temperature and dew points
began to converge, as the sun began to set, and sky conditions dropped from
11,000 broken to a very optimistic 1300 overcast -- across a 250 mile wide
stretch of terrain -- in about 20 minutes. It was the most widespread
deterioration I've ever seen.

I was glad to be on the ground at the end of that flight. We were still
legal VFR, but visibility was 5 miles or less, and nasty icing was occurring
less than a thousand feet up.

Other than that, we haven't flown diddly squat in weeks. Our last fly-in
guest was sometime around Thanksgiving. Worst flying weather I've ever
seen.

Yes, I feel your pain. I haven't flown since a trip in October to New
Hampshire where I got some ice on the return trip. I was off two weeks
at Christmas and the weather was either icing conditions or low vis
every day the entire time I was off work!


Matt

Scott Draper wrote:

Please don't crosspost to *every* aviation newsgroup.



Please don't you post at all.

Matt