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My 9th Wedding Anniversary Trip, To Newport, OR Carb Ice & Real Engine Out "Long"
Hello, group the wife and I departed at 12:30pm 06-26-04 ceilings scattered
at 4,900' tops 6,000' & clear at the coast we will be flying over 3,800' terrain. The trip up was a fun flight almost uneventful was fun weaving around the clouds will post photos soon. As briefed the clouds were gone about 10 miles before the coast line. We flew out over the pacific ocean about 10 miles looking at all the fishing boats. The asked the wife if she was ready for me to show her a steep turn, she said ok. She actually wanted to do another after the first one we did a few other things then decided that we need to land as it is getting close to the bed and breakfast check in time. The winds at our destination were 220 @ 9 G15. I opted for runway 20 was a bit high on a RP. I decided to slip it in I explained to the wife what I was going to do she was alright with a slip. We landed checked in with the FBO called the place we were staying at they picked us up promptly. The Place we stayed at was The Newly Built Stone Crest Cellar Bed & Breakfast. Our hostess Judy was a very pleasant upscale lady. If you are looking to take your wife on a relaxing log cabin castle type paradise getaway, on the Oregon coast this is the place to go. The rooms are great the beds are high quality the complementary wine & appetizers (cheese & crackers, fresh fruit, chocolate truffles & port) are great. The ocean view's are outstanding from the deck and even better from their hammock on the bluff. The beach access needs a bit of work but they are working on it! The bedding & linens are great quality & very comfortable. Thick comfortable robes are also provided. The sound of the ocean waves will put you to sleep ASAP. This morning's breakfast was excellent & consisted of gourmet coffee, tea, fresh fruit, fresh O.J., wheat toast, and one dam good omelet nothing was spared, lots of great stuffings and served with a smile. We will definitely return to The Stone Crest Cellar Bed & Breakfast wish we were able to stay more than 1 night. We check out Judy takes us back to the airport about a mile away thanks us & wishes us a safe trip. Web address for Stone Crest Cellar Bed & Breakfast http://www.stonecrestbb.com/ Now the fun begins: Call in for a weather brief about a half hour prior to getting ot the airport, Ceilings Scattered 1,600; to 5,500 with mountain's obscured, winds aloft were light and variable airmass stable. We get fueled up & pre flight, I program the GPS and fold my chart the way I like it. We depart runway 34 climb up to 6,500 head for the tops of the scatterd clouds. I make the call to go up to 7,500 It felt more comfortable there and the what a view the scattered clouds below. I had to climb up to 8,300' to keep cloud clearance I set up for cruise, a fiew minuits later the engine starts to run a bit ruff. I go through my checks apply carburetor heat it smoothes out radio to Seattle center that I have some carburetor ice they ask me for the OAT was about 45 degrees. I start to descend down to warmer air all of a sudden at 7,500' I get silence' the engine quits prop is just wind milling! I pitch for best glide make sure all my checks are done. I see KMMV and I got plenty of altitude I know could make if I could not get restarted. I reported to Seattle Center that I now have an engine out and I may have to be landing other than my destination and that I have KMMV in site and I am attempting a restart. At about 4,500' I can hear the engine starting to sputter wanting to fire back up as I am descending over KMMV at about 3,800' the ice melted engine regained power burping every now i held altitude until ice was totally gone, I leave the carburetor heat on, the oil temp started to climb back up to normal. I wipe the sweet off my forehead, radio to Seattle Center tell them that I have it restarted and am going to continue on. Right after I radioed in to Seattle that I got power back another pilot on flight following was going west bound at 8,500' called Seattle Center asking them ware I had the carburetor ice at because he wanted to avoid the area. All I can say is what a trip I never had carburetor ice so bad that the engine went out what a rush it was and the wife really enjoyed the little 1 day vacation in paradise. |
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