Thanks for the answer Elon, I am looking forward to the note on intercooler
induced icing.....we get some pretty low humidity percentages at Bonneville
and El Mirage so icing there should be rare. But what about Maxton? I bet
it (icing) can be a real problem there with high humidity. Or is it fuel
icing that you refer? The point is well taken in any case....icing can be a
problem almost anywhere.
I once had a Volkswagen that iced up in the San Fernando Valley due to a
small venturi carb on a "pepped-up" engine (bigger).........must have been
some really big flow velocities in there...didn't do it until I pepped it up.
Skip
At 06:47 PM 12/4/02 -0800, Elon Ormsby wrote:
>Skip wrote, (snip. . . ) Elon, you "snipped" my comment about dew point and
>temperature being close together......my point was that carb heat won't
>help fuel distribution and ice isn't due to low temperature alone.
>
>Skip, my apologies. In my attempt to edit the message for brevity, I
>distorted your original message. I agree that dew point and temp being
>close is an icing recipe. What some folks find hard to believe is that
>icing can be a serious condition on a hot day and a wide dew-point. 100
>deg f and a dew point of 50 deg f are in the icing regime. I should have
>included a link to a great icing chart. Every pilot should have it in
>their flight bag (and every LSR with an
>intercooler). http://www.fishcreekflyingclub.com/safety/carbice/
>
>So what does all this have to do with LSR. Well...I wrote a post about a
>week after all of the intercooler stuff died down. Dave brought up the
>point that the fuel charge could be chilled too low (thanks Dave). But
>nobody addressed the issue of icing which I think is the biggest problem of
>all! It never got posted and flew off into the Internet ether. I never
>saved it but I will re-do it and send it along shortly. -Elon
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