"Jose" wrote:

I'm still surprised that the carb iced up at full throttle. Conditions
were in the bad area of the carb ice chart, but my engine has never seemed
prone to the problem. In 650+ hours I've only detected carb ice once
before, and that was after a long taxi on a cool, rainy day.

I had carb ice in the =runup= in a Dakota that had never had any kind of
carb ice problems before. It was warm and humid, ideal conditions, but the
engine hadn't been running for ten minutes yet. I applied runup power and
checked mags and such, no issue. Then I pulled the power all the way back
and the engine died.

In my case a couple of years ago I could not get the engine to rev past 1,000
rpm for the runup. That time I immediately suspected carb ice because of the
long taxi in the rain. I applied carb heat and finished the runup ok.


Never happened before, or since.

Not to me, either--until that flight to Macon last week.

--
Dan
C-172RG at BFM