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Ice contamination on the horizontal stabilizer

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As the accident of the Dash 8 Q400 of Colgan Air at Buffalo NY had created a lot of questions and because I consider this of great importance for those who tries to fly as real as possible, I want to recommend these two links where you can get detailed explanations about icing formations on the control surfaces. Specially ice formation and experimented stalls on the horizontal stabilizer.
The video presents a physical description of the problem and the formation of ice on the tailplane, the symptoms of ice contamination and suggested recovery procedures. Enjoy the video at: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2238323060735779946 Also, this is a free, online course primarily intended for the general aviation pilot who flies aircraft certified for flight in icing, although much of the information is applicable to all pilots. With an operational focus, this course provides tools pilots can use to deal with in-flight icing. Emphasis is on avoidance, detection and exit, as well as the effects of ice accretion on performance and handling and the particular hazard of Supercooled Large Droplet (SLD) icing. http://aircrafticing.grc.nasa.gov/courses_inflight.html Both videos and training course are no copyright and courtesy of NASA.

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