Great writeup! Wishing a safe journey home!
Great report, thanks for sharing! Tailwinds and have a good trip home.
My inlet nacelle deice boot failed causing a hotspot to melt part of the inlet nacelle lip.
Do you know how it happened, what was the cause?
The lip element was accidentally overheated two years ago by a mechanic ground testing the prop heat and not realisling that the inlet heat came on with the same switch.
We resistance checked it at the time, and it appeared to be fine, and continued to work for two years but in Asia I rarely use the de-ice systems, and when I do it is for very short periods. Retrospectively there must have been a weakening of the heating element which manifested itself when I was in prolonged IMC.
Not a common problem by any means and I am not aware of anybody else experiencing it either.
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Thanks for the explanation.
