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Airborne Icing
Topic Description
Our review of airborne icing takes operational focus, providing fixed wing pilots with tools they can use when confronted with in-flight icing. Emphasis is on avoidance, detection and exit, as well as the effects of ice accretion on performance and handling. We also discuss Supercooled Large Droplet (SLD) icing and provide general guidance on recovering from icing-induced conditions, such as tailplane stalls. Throughout the lesson, imagery, videos, and interactive graphics provide pilots with visual information that will aid in their identification of different kinds of icing and accretion levels.
4 lessons:
How Ice Form
Aerodynamic Effects of Icing: Wing
Aerodynamic Effects of Icing: Tail
Aircraft Design
Topic Outline
- Basic icing physics
- Icing definitions and terminology
- Aerodynamic effects of airborne icing
- Airborne icing weather patterns
- Flight planning and in-flight icing information
- Operation of de- and anti-ice equipment