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Winter is on the way, and with it comes icing.  We'll work through two scenarios at the November 10th MEM IMC Club meeting. In both, the airplane is not approved for flight in known icing, but the pilot finds ice anyway.

Your daughter's first baby is due at 7 AM tomorrow.  You launch in your T182T, near max gross, on a weather briefing that is now more than four hours old.  At 5,000 feet in solid IMC, the OAT reads minus 3° C, clear ice is forming on the wing, and your climb rate is collapsing.

Your A36 has no ice protection, and rime ice is building.  Center approves your descent to warmer air.  Then you feel a vibration and hear a loud bang.  A crack starts spreading across your windshield.

What would you do?  More details below.

The meeting will be held via Zoom.

Link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/91065457747?pwd=ZGU2SlBVaUoyMEZNUWxycTVhNGErUT09 

Meeting ID: 910 6545 7747

Passcode: 117.5

The Memphis IMC Club's objective is to help each of us become a safer, more confident, and more competent instrument pilot.  Here's the flight plan for the Tuesday, November 10th, 7 PM CST Zoom meeting...

Ice can turn a routine IFR flight into an emergency in just a few minutes, especially in an airplane with no way to shed it.  At the November 10th meeting, we will work through two icing scenarios.  In both, the airplane is not approved for flight in known icing.  In both, the pilot finds ice anyway.

The Four-Hour Old Briefing. Your daughter and her husband have waited a long time for this baby. Delivery is scheduled for 7 AM tomorrow in Evansville, IN, and she wants you and your wife there. You load your T182T with luggage and a pile of baby gifts, close to max gross. Your 8:05 AM briefing showed a warm front clearing the route by noon.  By takeoff, that briefing is more than four hours old. At 5,000 feet in solid IMC, the OAT is minus 3° C. Clear ice is forming on the leading edge. Your climb rate drops from 600 FPM to barely 200. Your wife looks at the wing and asks, "Are we okay?" Continue, climb, descend, or turn back to Memphis?  

More Than Ice.  You are IFR from St. Cloud, MN, to Flint, MI, in your A36 Bonanza, with your business partner in the right seat. The airplane has no ice protection and is not approved for icing.  An hour and a half into the flight, you hear ice hitting the airframe and see rime building on the wing.  Center approves your descent to 6,000 feet.  As you start down, you feel an unusual vibration. Then a loud bang. A crack runs across your windshield and spreads, but the airplane still flies normally. What would you do?

This is a program you don't want to miss!

There is NOT a membership requirement to participate in MEM IMC Club meetings, just an interest in becoming a safer, more confident, and more competent instrument pilot.  And there are NO DUES!

Join us - November 10th, 7 PM CST, via Zoom! 

Fly SAFE!