Yes you are rite.  Regards   2539H
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From: Syd Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: JR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 8:08 PM
Subject: Re: carb ice


>JR:
>I agree about warm moist air having more carb ice potential.  I've heard
>of several carb ice problems when OAT was around 90 degrees, the most
>recent of which was at the Ercoupe Nationals in Jacksonville, IL.  The
>plane went into a corn field.  The concept is, at low rpm temperatures
>in the carburetor can drop 60 degrees.  If you start at 90 degrees, you
>get 30 degrees.  My instructor taught me to pull carb heat whenever I
>throttled back to 2000 rpm or below, and to leave it on throughout the
>landing sequence.  I pull back to 2000 when I am in downwind opposite
>the approach end of the runway, maintain pattern altitude, pull back to
>1500 and turn base, indicated airspeed about 75 mph, keep it at 1500 and
>75 mph until I'm over the fence, then glide in to land.  Never a
>problem.  When applying power again, such as in a touch and go, I push
>in throttle and carb heat at the same time.
>
>Syd Cohen
>NC94196
>Wausau, WI
>
>JR wrote:
>
>> Such a basic subject .
>>
>> It is my experience that icing was more probable
>> with warm moist air in temperate conditions than
>> in cold dry air in cold conditions.
>>
>> Cold temps do not mean ice .
>>
>> Any comment ?
>
>

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