Jonas wrote:
When i departed ESMS 0700 UTC today i noticed a TB20 waiting to line up :)
Big brother 
Amazing pics! I think your plane also had a better performance 
And better ice protection too….
The flight home was very challenging and I was working pretty well flat out. Technically it was OK because the sferics picture was clean all along the route so IMC flight was pretty safe and in fact there was very little turbulence until the UK end when I was down below FL080 and got handed to, wait for it, London Info 124.60 who asked me where I was…
Metar
ESMS 240450Z 08009KT CAVOK 17/15 Q1011
EKOD 240450Z 08013KT 9999 FEW030CB SCT090 BKN180 18/16 Q1009
EDDW 240450Z 12002KT 9999 -RA FEW026 SCT058 BKN100 16/11 Q1004 TEMPO 4000 RA
EHAM 240455Z 20005KT 9999 FEW018 14/14 Q1002 TEMPO 4000 BR
EHRD 240455Z AUTO 08004KT 5000 BR NSC 13/13 Q1002 TEMPO 2500
EBOS 240450Z 10005KT 8000 NSC 13/09 Q1002 NOSIG
EGMD: no results found
EGKK 240450Z 07006KT 9999 -RA FEW042 SCT048 13/12 Q1000 RERA
EGKB: no results found
EGHH 240450Z 07007KT 9999 RA NSC 14/14 Q0998
TAF
ESMS 232316Z 2400/2424 09012KT CAVOK TEMPO 2406/2418 12015G25KT 9999 SHRA SCT040CB
EKOD: no results found
EDDW 232300Z 2400/2424 08009KT CAVOK TEMPO 2405/2424 4500 SHRA BKN012 SCT030CB PROB30 TEMPO 2412/2424 16015G25KT TSRA
EHAM 240144Z 2401/2506 25004KT 9999 FEW010 BKN040 BECMG 2401/2404 4500 BR PROB30 2403/2407 0600 BCFG BKN005 BECMG 2407/2410 13008KT 9999 NSW SCT020 BECMG 2412/2415 17014KT TEMPO 2413/2504 6000 SHRA RA SCT025CB BKN040 PROB40 TEMPO 2414/2420 18018G30KT 4000 TSRA SCT020CB BKN030 BECMG 2500/2503 28018G28KT
EHRD 240259Z 2402/2506 25004KT 9999 FEW010 BKN040 BECMG 2402/2404 4500 BR PROB30 2403/2407 0600 BCFG BKN007 BECMG 2407/2410 13008KT 9999 NSW SCT020 BECMG 2412/2415 17014KT TEMPO 2413/2504 6000 SHRA RA SCT025CB BKN040 PROB40 TEMPO 2414/2420 18018G30KT 4000 TSRA SCT020CB BKN030 BECMG 2500/2503 28018G28KT
EBOS 232300Z 2400/2506 17002KT 9999 FEW020 SCT040 PROB30 TEMPO 2402/2406 3000 BR BECMG 2407/2409 15012KT TEMPO 2408/2412 3500 SHRA PROB30 TEMPO 2409/2412 VRB15G35KT 2500 TSRA BKN008 BKN020CB BECMG 2412/2414 18018G30KT PROB30 TEMPO 2414/2423 3500 SHRA TSRA BECMG 2419/2421 26015G30KT PROB30 TEMPO 2419/2422 BKN010 PROB40 TEMPO 2422/2503 29025G40KT
EGMD: no results found
EGKK 232259Z 2400/2506 09005KT 9999 FEW020 PROB30 2400/2403 4000 BR TEMPO 2403/2420 7000 RA BKN012 PROB30 TEMPO 2404/2409 3000 +RA BKN008 PROB40 TEMPO 2409/2419 3000 +TSRA BKN008 BKN012CB BECMG 2412/2415 33010KT BECMG 2418/2421 27010KT PROB30 2502/2506 6000
EGKB: no results found
EGHH 240432Z 2404/2412 08008KT 9999 FEW030 TEMPO 2404/2412 6000 SHRA BKN010 PROB40 TEMPO 2404/2412 3000 +SHRA BKN006 BECMG 2409/2412 35010KT
Plan B was a dip down to ~1000ft and flying all the way along the coast of Germany etc all the way home. That’s why I got all the airport data above. But in the end it was not necessary. I had to climb initially to FL190, but (at -15C!) picked up a fair coat of very clean rime ice. Normally this would not do much but at the operating ceiling anything will bugger up performance. I will post some pics of it. So, with the stall warner going, I had to go down to FL180 and then the clouds opened up anyway, for a couple of hours which is what is needed to get rid of ice by sublimation.
The UK end was some of the heaviest rain I have ever seen. It got the dead files off very nicely! And not a drop leaked inside. I thought… what a brilliant plane the TB20 is. It just sits there, in this sh*t, the MP never budged (well maybe 1/4" during the absolutely heaviest rain which must have been out of the bottom of a TCU – needless to say I was watching the MP very carefully).
Ref the fuel servo icing data, alternate air at FL180 drops the IAS about 5kt.
The Thuraya XT satellite phone didn’t work – until I found the little corner of win8 (in Task Manager somewhere) where you can see which process is accessing the internet and in this case moving loads of megabytes. It was bloody “google cache”!!!!! I have no idea what this piece of crap is and even less what it is doing on a windows tablet which does not have the POS Spyware called “Chrome” installed. I blocked some port number (50k-something) and, with about USD 25 wasted, suddenly everything worked. Even the Telegram messaging app works, over the 50kbit/sec GPRS connection ($5/MB). I know one could firewall it the other way (block everything except a couple of private wx sites – much discussed here in the past) but that prevents a browser to be used generally unless one does extra work (involving a private web proxy server). So I had an internet connection for much of the flight, so was able to continually check for TS activity (sferics), get metars, etc.
Good to hear that you got home alright. It was nice to meet up on Saturday.
As @Anders said, great that you made it all the way home.
And thanks everyone who turned up Saturday, it was great seeing you all.
Thanks for your company Sunday night, @Peter. I decided to leave Malmø to Norway before the succession of fronts start rolling in. There was quite a bit of convective activity during my flight to ENCN, but scattered enough not to be a problem.
Sorry I could not make it on Saturday.
It was great to meet you all and thank you for making it such a nice occassion
The wx picture for the rest of the week (commencing with tomorrow) does indeed look spectacularly crappy, and the weekend isn’t going to be any better than a reasonably clean wx with a PROB30 TEMPO +TSRA
Yes. I may make it to ENTO tomorrow depending on how much convectivity there turns out to be. This afternoon was intense up there. And it all originates in the UK :-)
I definitely need to be in Oslo (ENKJ or worst case ENGM) by Friday. Oslo is right in the center of that low…At least for the moment there are no additional fronts beyond Friday. Hope is the motor of life.
Peter wrote:
Some of many lovely looking little bits of Sweden
There are many nice places in Sweden but this is not in Sweden
First picture is West coast of Lolland just north of Søndernor
Second picture is Lille Ø and Askø
Third picture is Dronning Alexandrines Bro
All three are in Denmark
How embarrassing
I must take a photo of my tablet next to each picture I take e.g.
Peter,
Why did you prefer sferics over your stormscope to avoid electrical activity ?
Besides, could you show us a radar picture at the moment of your flight, so that we can get a representation of the stuff you went through ?
(Can we say you now fly frontal weather systems !?)
About your icing-and-near-stall experience around your ceiling altitude (which does not seem a pleasant one), I have two more questions:
- not being able to stay clear on top all the time, why didn’t you choose to cruise, even in the muck, below freezing level ? (Of course Monitoring radar and sferics via your sat connection)
- as suggests Achim here and there, why don’t you go to a turbo installation ?!?
Thanks for sharing with us,
Alexandre.
