Most airframe icing occurs when the tops of the clouds are warmer than minus-15 C. In fact, when cloud top temperatures are warmer than minus-12 C, the cloud below is almost guaranteed to be ...

These include rime, clear, and mixed. What icing type accretes on your airframe depends on many environmental factors. Let’s briefly discuss each of these factors as it relates to the type of icing.

Neither pilot had seen any airframe or canopy icing during the climb, nor could the crew see any evidence of control-surface restriction during a post-landing visual check.

Besides the amazing view, the bonus is often glassy-smooth air with no airframe icing and unlimited visibility. So, it is no surprise that for many pilots knowing that magic altitude that keeps ...

After the ATR took off from Cascavel’s runway 15, propeller anti-icing was switched on. As it climbed through 13,000ft an electronic ice-detector sounded, and the crew turned on the airframe de ...

According to a Cenipa official, the plane’s airframe icing button was activated at least three times during the flight, while cockpit recordings showed the copilot said there was “a lot of ...

“Airframe icing was observed on the leading edge of both wings and horizontal stabilizers, both engine nacelles, and the leading edge of the rudder,” said the preliminary report, which was ...

It was also determined that the “airframe de-icing” system was switched on and off several times. However, it remains to be determined whether this was done manually by the crew or if it was a ...

“Airframe icing was observed on the leading edge of both wings and horizontal stabilizers, both engine nacelles, and the leading edge of the rudder,” investigators wrote in their preliminary ...