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The wife and I have
to go to a wedding in Saratoga Springs, NY in mid March. I can't imagine a
worse place to be in mid-march, but they didn't ask me.
Anyway, I just flew in from Florida
yesterday in my L-360, and had my first experience with icing. Quite an
exciting trip. We were in the soup pretty much the entire flight down and
back. On the way back we got fairly heavy icing at 10,000 feet over
SC. I dropped to 5,000 feet and it all peeled off on the way down.
But the plane could barely hold 125 KIAS at 10k with the ice.
Then we picked up short final
into RDU while on the glideslope. We broke out of the clouds about 600
feet but I couldn't see out the windscreen until about 300 feet due to the ice
that had very quickly accumulated on the canopy.
So I have concerns about the weather
in upstate NY in March. Is it predictable enough that I may be able to get
in and out without too much problem, or am I doomed to 95% probability of crappy
weather? Or, even if it looks good before I leave for the weekend, that it
deteriorates rapidly and unpredictably?
I hate the thought of commercial
flights into Albany, but I also hate the idea of being a lawn dart due to ice
and hills...
Thanks,
Matt
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