Re: Refrigerator monitor ideas?

["E. Lee Dickinson" <lee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Robert L Bass" <no-sales-spam@bassburglaralarms> wrote in message
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>> How do they detect wing icing on airplanes?
>
> There's an audible warning device in the cockpit of almost every airplane
> called a "stall warning."  Of course, by the time that one goes off the
> icing problem is pretty bad.  :^)

Nothign about the stall indicator allows it to detect airframe icing. In
fact, when picking up ice, a mechanical stall vane is likely to have ice in
it and no longer work as intended. A pressure-based stall indicator is
likely to be clogged by ice and be unable to detect the drop in pressure
that makes it function.

Loss of function of the stall vane (as well as your pitot-statics, of
course) is one of the concerns.

:-P

I don't know about snap rolling a 737, but I do know you can trim them up
for inverted flight. Doesn't even require full thrust!  This is, of course,
assuming a certain level of accuracy in MS Flightsim.