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Old 2nd Sep 2003, 17:05
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Flying_Tuur
 
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For the very low temp, we use SAT in the air...

If during Climb or Cruise the SAT is below -40 Celsius, No Anti Icing required. This is because no 'wet' particals remaining in the air which can freeze to your aircraft..

In my early days on the 737-200, we didn't have that fancy FMC with the SAT.. I remember we used a rule of thumb to calculate the SAT, since we only got the TAT indicated. I'm not very sure about this rule anymore since I didn't have to use it the last years.

Must be something like TAT - (Mach * 40) = SAT

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm going to try this afternoon if that works..

So, TAT indicating -12, Mach is -.74

Roughly: -12 - 29 = -41 (seems correct)
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