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Weather Flying - Buck
wrote in message oups.com... Andrew Sarangan wrote: If you are below freezing in the clouds, don't be surprised if you get ice. Instead, be pleasantly surprised if you don't get ice. ... unless it's a long way below zero, in which case the clouds probably consist of ice crystals rather than supercooled water droplets. I don't worry too much about flying in or through a cloud layer when the OAT is -20 degC or lower -- the only time you'll get iced up there there is if there's a lot of lifting action to carry water droplets up from down low (i.e. the windward side of a mountain ridge in a strong wind, or a towering cumulus cloud). Actually you will sometimes find as much ice on the lee side of the mountain ridge on the rising side of a mountain wave. Mike MU-2 |
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