BEECHCRAFT
SecUonX
Safety Information
"Severe".
The National Weather Servicedefinition
of
"severe icing" describes that condition as:
"the
rate of accumulation
is
such that deicing/anti-icing
equipment fails to reduce
or
control the hazard." No
airplane
equipped
with
any
combination
of
deicing/anti-icing equipment can be expected to cope
with such conditions.
As
competent pilots know,
there appear
to
be no predictable limits for the
severest weather conditions.
For
essentially
the
same reasons that airplanes, however designed
or
equipped for IFR flight, cannot be flown safely into
conditions
such
as
thunderstorms,
tornados,
hurricanes or other phenomena likely to produce
severe turbulence, airplanes equipped for
flight
in
icing conditions cannot be expected to cope with
"severe"
icing
conditions
as
defined
by
the
National
Weather Service. The prudent pilot must remain
alert
to
the possiblity that icing conditions may
become
"severe",
and that bis equipment
will
not
cope with them.
At
. the f irst indication that such
condition may have been encounterec! or may
lie
ahead, he should immediately react by selecting the
most expeditious and safe course for diversion.
Every pilot of a properly and fully-equipped Beech
airplane who ventures into icing conditions must
maintain the minimum speed
(KIAS) for operation
in
icing conditions, which
is
set forth
in
the Normal
Procedures Section of bis Information Manual.
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a
March,
1981
10-29
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