Originally Posted by
Check Airman
Well if it’s just regular old snow, I’d imagine you wouldn’t get much accumulation on a vertical surface.
See, this is where engineers in design room need to speak to operators.
Ive seen the opposite side of the representative area fail in half the time the holdover time was supposed to last, due to blowing snow in a significant crosswind. One side of the aircraft, most recently with type 2 straight, failed well before the downwind side.
Could be argued that the loss of lift on one side of the outboard folding segment is acceptable, as long as aileron can control at max contaminated crosswind limits....