Ice Protection!
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- Flyboyamin
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Re: Ice Protection!
I finally scheduled an appointment with diamond in Austria. They told me they are going to check the TKS system, once approved the plane will be FIKI certified. The price I got was 1400 euros.
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Re: Ice Protection!
Good reason for FIKI - from a recent "light rime" encounter! All the protected areas were ice free.
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Re: Ice Protection!
A little on prop spinners too but props were "clean"
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Re: Ice Protection!
How long were you in icing conditions? Did you find any change in performance while you were picking up the ice? No shots of the tail?
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Re: Ice Protection!
Tail was completely clean. Ice formed mostly on winglets during last 15 minutes of flight - FIKI was already on when it started forming. Engine cowlings were clean too - probably from TKS coming off of props. Nothing on inside portion of wings either.
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Re: Ice Protection!
Caught a lot of ice last night, when flying back home during night. According to clearance/procedure I had to dive into the ice clouds at 6.000ft and had to stay there for approx. 12nm. Had to switch De-Icing to „high“ to get rid of the ice on the wings. Aircraft handling felt normal. I was surprised about the amount of ice I caught. This is the only picture I took, but I remember the rest of the fuselage was clear of ice (I had to deice canopy front on final), but there was also a lot of ice on spinners, winglets, wing roots, engine nacelles around air inlets, doorsteps. I icing conditions I hear very often, odd noises out of the air inlets, sometimes even light ice spray coming out of the inlets into the cabin.
Just to be clear I am trying ro avoid icing conditions whenever I can!
Just to be clear I am trying ro avoid icing conditions whenever I can!
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Re: Ice Protection!
Had some ice damage the paint at the fuselage. It went through the protection foil, but not much further. It happened even though I used deicing.
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Re: Ice Protection!
The same thing happened to me 2 years ago when descending through cumulus cloud on the right-hand side of the aircraft.robert63 wrote:Had some ice damage the paint at the fuselage. It went through the protection foil, but not much further. It happened even though I used deicing.
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Re: Ice Protection!
Hi Robert, I know that you are a super experienced DA42 pilot and most probably know this. Early switch on of de-icing avoids cumulation of ice blocks on the props that might hit the fuselage. Years ago I had the same damage, was quite expensive to repair.
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Re: Ice Protection!
Wilfried - That's quite a "snowball" on your nose!
Looking!
1980 414A - N2691Y (sold)
DA62 - N100DA 62.078 (sold)
DA42TDi - N742SA 42.AC112 (sold)
1980 414A - N2691Y (sold)
DA62 - N100DA 62.078 (sold)
DA42TDi - N742SA 42.AC112 (sold)