Some excellent advice here!
Another point to remember regardless of a booted aircraft or TKS aircraft is prop anti ice.
I have a lot of multi engine prop time over the Uk Scotland and Ireland in summer and winter day and night!
Icing is not something to Hang around in and you must be capable and able to change levels by up to 5000 feet so consider the need to go into CAS as well as a turbo charged engine and oxygen!
Problem not so bad if you know for sure that you can descend to above the MSA and loose it all.
I have had a couple of trips airways in a booted deiced twin where I asked the controller to let me pop down to get rid of ice and pop back up again.
This was not because of a failure of the boots to do their job but ice on the rest of the airframe knocking maybe 25-30 kts off the cruise speed.
On longer trips it made sense to drop down and come back up with the controllers agreement.
TKS as fitted to a Citation S2 will give you a cleaner wing than a booted wing and remember the booted wing requires maintenance for holes and replacement which can be costly! Booted aircraft are limited in the temperatures they are used.
TKS is expensive but you probably won't use it in Anger that many times.
Fit a into known icing approved system as other part systems while being better than nothing especially prop anti ice will effect your dispatch rate into known ice conditions and doing so in a non approved deice/anti ice system would effect your insurance.
Pace
Last edited by Pace; 3rd May 2013 at 11:31.