Sorry Doug, several years ago I got severe carb icing on take off and had to apply carb heat and climbed out and made a safe landing on the field. It was 57 F with a 72% humidity if I remember correctly granted it wouldn't work as well on the 4th of July here were at 4200 feet field elevation. Jim N87349 -----Original Message----- From: Doug Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: G/F Alon S/N149 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sunday, December 05, 1999 1:44 PM Subject: Re: Sunday Trivia
>I've already sent in my response, but after reading some others, I gotta >say, you might have started something here George :-) Some said pull Carb >heat, ok, I'll buy that, but You're not going to gain enough combustion air >to sustain a climb, but maybe, just maybe you'd buy some valuable time to >either find a better place to light ( I've flown around trees before, and >once made it back to the runway) or make it to those treetops I spoke of. >Doug >
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