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Old December 8th 03, 02:25 AM
Mike Rapoport
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I have no idea of what you are trying to say. Aircraft performance in icing
is measured in both wind tunnels and in flight. It doesn't matter what a
bunch of pilots think, the data is quantified and it shows that the
performance degradation is highest with large droplets which form ice in
ridges aft of the leading edges.

Mike
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You still have it partly backwards on droplet size.


Let me provide you with a more probabilistic view of the data you are
relying on, being "observed". Now in fact FAA funded a study of icing

from
large droplets, as that was the "observed phenomena". Consider an
experiment where 50 pilots encounter large droplet icing and 50 pilots
encounter small droplet icing. At the end of the experiment, the group

with
"observed" large droplet reports 49 incidents, while the small droplet
"observed" group has only 5 advocates.