I don't think the average person realizes that for aircraft pilots ice is a constant worry even in tropical areas of the world.
The temperature drops 1.98C for every 1,000 feet you go up so you can see quite quickly how fast you can enter an area below the freezing point of water.
Icing of the pitot tube and carburetor are a constant worry at least for prop driven aircraft. Right from day one you're taught what to look for signs of carburetor icing and how to correct it. Water in the fuel is probably #3 on the list.
I never got far enough along to learn about wing icing I ran out of money for lessons but really everyday it's ice, ice, ice!
I never got far enough along to learn about wing icing I ran out of money for lessons
Hey, me too! (And 9/11 happened which made it a lot harder for foreigners to fly.)
But I did have the opportunity to get a lesson in how to avoid carb icing without carb heat when I pulled the carb heat control straight out of the dash on our 152. ;-)
I'm not surprised most of the 152s are probably from the 1970s and are used constantly for training it's amazing the last even with strict control of inspections and repairs.
I learned on a Cessna 152 too but one day we had to use a 172 it was like a Cadillac compared to the 152.
The temperature drops 1.98C for every 1,000 feet you go up so you can see quite quickly how fast you can enter an area below the freezing point of water.
Icing of the pitot tube and carburetor are a constant worry at least for prop driven aircraft. Right from day one you're taught what to look for signs of carburetor icing and how to correct it. Water in the fuel is probably #3 on the list.
I never got far enough along to learn about wing icing I ran out of money for lessons but really everyday it's ice, ice, ice!