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Old 1st May 2008, 14:59
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Oluf Husted
 
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BA38s engines "Hesitated"

Dear Starbear,

The jet engine "Lips", the compressors big-fan blades and the very first part
of the "core-engine" is kept above the freezing point by hot bleed air, if you remember to turn the system "on" and increase the power setting.

"The higher the temperature, the more severe is the icing situation" up to +10 degrees C. (since the cloud water content, at 100% humidity, is approx. the double at +10 C, than it is at 0 degrees C.)

The amount of ice needed to make the engines to hesitate, can easily be gone, before the AAIB gets around, when the ground temperature is/was 11 degrees C.

Oluf
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