Types Of Icing

Question 1

What are the two conditions needed for structural ice to form

Answer 1

1. Visible Moisture
2. Aircraft surface temp below freezing

Question 2

Clear Ice

Answer 2

Considered most dangerous, heavy hard and difficult to remove, forms when water drops freeze slowly as a smooth sheet of solid ice

Question 3

Rime Ice

Answer 3

White, rogue ice formed by small supercooled water drops freezing quickly

Question 4

Mixed Ice

Answer 4

Combination of Rime and Clear

Question 5

Instrument Ice

Answer 5

Pitot and static

Question 6

Induction Ice

Answer 6

Ice deducting the amount of air for the engine intake

Question 7

Intake Ice

Answer 7

Blocks the engine intake

Question 8

Carburetor Ice

Answer 8

Formed in the Venturi due to vaporization of fuel

Question 9

Frost

Answer 9

Ice crystals caused by sublimation when below freezing