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From: brecher@btr.btr.com (Steve Brecher)
Newsgroups: rec.aviation
Subject: Strike Finder manual excerpts
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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 91 01:47:32 PST
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Following are some comments from the "Strike Finder Digital Weather
Avoidance User's Guide" in the chapter on the dangers of severe weather
conditions.

In the section on "Heavy Rain":
"The aircraft may slow considerably from the impact with a wall of water.
When engines ingest enough water they stop running and you slow down even
more."

In the section on "Heavy Airframe Icing and Freezing Rain":
"You can easily identify freezing rain because in the blink of an eye you
can't see out of the airplane anymore and anything you have in form of
deice equipment doesn't help.  Usually a lower altitude will be warmer and
help melt the ice.  Under these conditions the aircraft will seek a lower
altitude automatically without pilot intervention."

[Too bad the wry humor is spoiled a bit by omission of the fact that
freezing rain implies warmer temperatures at *higher* altitudes.]

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brecher@btr.com (Steve Brecher)