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Old 12-27-2012 | 12:09 PM
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essyou35
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Default RE: Turbines and Winter flying

Commercial compressors are a lot bigger and stronger. They also routinely get chipped as well. These chips are easiliy blended but on our small comrpessors they will be ruined.

But I dont care go for it. We cant do it in the US with skis unless you have a brake somehow.


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One thing I would be concerned about is the turbine sucking in some ice crystals on take off or landing, you will get compressor damage from that.
Most commercial turbine fly through clouds full of ice crystals everyday. I wouldn't worry about it.