Wow,
It's been a really, really long time since I last posted. My quest for my Private Pilot License has dragged on arduously, despite my efforts to hurry up and finish. *sigh* Alas, I have only three hours of test prep in the airplane and the checkride yet to finish, as I completed the last of my flights leading up to the final push last Friday night, which brings us to the subject of this post. Carburetor Icing...
That's what the carb heat knob is for, right? You know the one. It's right by the throttle & mixture knobs, it even has it's own placard that says: "carb heat" and below that it says: "pull on". Now I have always observed liberal use of the carb heat due to the low mounted carbs on the Contentental engines found in the 172 and 150 I have been training in, but up until Friday night, I had never, to my knowledge, experienced carburetor icing.
The sudden missfiring of the engine and very noticable vibration felt in the floorboard of the plane was a quick attention getter. This all happened on climb-out, while sharing the pattern with another plane and while my instructor was having to trouble-shoot the intercom because he couldn't hear me.
To borrow a line of text from Lex,
"I learned about flying from that."
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
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