Winter Flying

Buy yourself some gallon jugs of isopropal alcohol and and pour it on.
The warmer/hotter it is, the faster it will melt and absorb the water
and evaporate.

wrote:
I do have a question. First a little background.

I fly a PA28-180. It is hangered.

Sometimes we fly in the late afternoon and land just after dark at our
destination. We come back to the plane to find the wings covered with a
light coating of frost and we need to depart ASAP for different
reasons. This is not a good thing (the frost).

Is there some product that can be carried and sprayed on the wings and
tail surfaces to immediately de-ice the plane? I have been looking at
various catalogs and haven't seen anything.
Regards,
Steve.T
PP ASEL/Instrument

Hmm... just a light misting of frost on a Cherokee wing? Probably not worth
losing too much sleep over unless you really need every last drop of
performance. I understand it's much more important on wings that rely on
more laminar flow like a Cirrus or Mooney.

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I do have a question. First a little background.

I fly a PA28-180. It is hangered.

Sometimes we fly in the late afternoon and land just after dark at our
destination. We come back to the plane to find the wings covered with a
light coating of frost and we need to depart ASAP for different
reasons. This is not a good thing (the frost).

Is there some product that can be carried and sprayed on the wings and
tail surfaces to immediately de-ice the plane? I have been looking at
various catalogs and haven't seen anything.
Regards,
Steve.T
PP ASEL/Instrument

Well, I can tell you from personal experience that at 6500 MSL, at
80Knots in a climb it flys like a pig with light rime. So with the same
thing on the ground, I'm not too inspired to put 3 passengers and me
into it and depart. And that's with 5K of runway.

Old pilots, bold pilots. No old bold pilots. And I don't know enough to
be a test pilot.

Later,
Steve.T
PP ASEL/Instrument

On 24 Dec 2004 05:25:47 -0800, "steve.t"
wrote:

Well, I can tell you from personal experience that at 6500 MSL, at
80Knots in a climb it flys like a pig with light rime. So with the same
thing on the ground, I'm not too inspired to put 3 passengers and me
into it and depart. And that's with 5K of runway.

You don't even want frost on the wings. Clean it off first.

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

Old pilots, bold pilots. No old bold pilots. And I don't know enough to
be a test pilot.

Later,
Steve.T
PP ASEL/Instrument

Well, I can tell you from personal experience that at 6500 MSL, at
80Knots in a climb it flys like a pig with light rime. So with the same
thing on the ground, I'm not too inspired to put 3 passengers and me
into it and depart. And that's with 5K of runway.

Old pilots, bold pilots. No old bold pilots. And I don't know enough to
be a test pilot.

Later,
Steve.T
PP ASEL/Instrument