Dan Luke wrote:
"Denny" wrote:


As soon as I got this far in your story, I thought 'carb ice!'
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I have iced up, at least once, every carb I have flown behind and it
doesn't matter the brand of engine...

My son is learning to fly and I have been a casual instructor for him
in Fat Albert the Apache... In the Warrior he flies, his real
instructor makes him just pull the carb heat on to verify there is a
slight rpm drop and immediately shove it back in.. When he flies with
me I am constantly on his back about checking/using carb heat.. He
finally got exasperated with me one day and said to the effect: If you
are so smart why does Wally instructor make me keep the heat off...
My reply was two questions..
ME: Have you ever heard of an airplane crashing because of the pilot
failed to use carb heat?
HIM: Well, yeah, sure...
ME: Have you ever heard of a plane crashing because the pilot used
the carb heat?
HIM: Uuuh, let me think. pause No.
ME: I rest my case!


Good point. Rest assured my carb heat is going to be on a lot more in the
future. It rained on me almost the whole way home from Macon that night; I
had the CH on the whole way.


BTW Dan, ya did good!


Thanks.

I may be perpetuating a OWT but I seem to recall something about carb
heat putting unfiltered air into the carb and that was why it was not
always on in addition to the issue of the hotter air decreasing performance.

John