On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 00:19:10 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

Aw, come on... It tells me. "This guy must do a lot of flying". I
clean mine at least twice a year, whether it needs it or not.

EEeeewwww...

Assuming you really did fly a lot, around here you'd have a wing that
produced no lift at all in a matter of weeks. The leading edge would have

You just have to go faster to maintain lift.

what would look like green and black ice accretions built up about two
inches thick.

Nah, it wears off kinda like an ablative compound. Besides if you fly
in the rain much it protects the paint and only builds up to about a
quarter inch. It's kinda gummy and ice won't stick to it either.
Besides it has a nice side effect that people aren't bugging you to
give them a ride up to a meeting some place so they don't have to
drive. Then again, after a day in the hot sun they get kind of
aromatic. :-))


In the past week we've flown 15 hours, and we were still hitting bugs at
6000 feet. They are thick as, well, flies, around here!

I don't know what it was but I hit something at about 5,000 that left
a splot about an inch in diameter...and about 4 long right on the
windshield.

I knew there was a reason I went with a half inch thick windshield.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com