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Perhaps appropriate, coming home from a aviation weather seminar weekend, flying through the remnants of Tropical Storm Gordon, which is making its way north. It was IMC from takeoff from Williamsport PA (ceilings about 1800ft), right to the final on approach.
Interestingly it was absolutely smooth in the precip, and only got bumpy with continuous light to moderate chop once I got out of it, and between layers. Happily the convection risk remained to the south for the duration of the flight.
Had several episodes of carb ice at cruise, was chasing that the whole flight really, it was really wet. At one point I had Cyl #2 go cold (EGTs when to zero, the DIF alarm went off), a typical initial sign of carb icing in evolution.
At 12,000 I was at +3C, but did not get any airframe ice, watched for it carefully. An interesting flight all around, in terms of planning and execution.
Seminar was put on by Scott Dennstaedt, of AvWxWorkshops fame. He is the co-developer of the WeatherSpork app. First class seminar, and a great weather app, nothing like it really, same with all his products.
* Orest
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