bvgs:
Pleased you found my carb' icing document interesting. Yes, you will find the answer in the document, even if you are demanding your 131 BHP the butter fly valve is nowhere near fully open. The R22 Beta II is a bigger problem than an R22 Beta as the 0-360-J2A BII engine is more de-rated than the 0-320-B2C Beta engine, take a look at the butterfly angles I have presented in the document i.e. MAP -v- butterfly angle.
Please to hear that you use a little more than a little less, that is the right way to approach the setting. The manufacture has given the pilot a method of preventing the ice build up in the carb', it is the pilot's primary responsibility to prevent the engine from stopping by using it.
Depending on the flight exercise I was flying and the atmospheric conditions I very often left the car' heat in the full hot position so as not to have to disturb Blogs.
As I tell the pilots on the flight safety course; I have had the R22 engine stop on me due to carb' icing and the scary thing was, we did not know it had stopped! Work that one out!
Keep them in the green.
Regards Dick
Last edited by Dick Sanford; 15th September 2012 at 23:07.