Shorts 360 icing

Back when I used to fly the Shorts 360, had an interesting night due to some severe icing. Took off out of Beckley, WV (BKW) en-route to Louisville, KY (SDF), we encountered severe airframe icing around 8,000 feet. Our departure point was below minimums so we couldn't return to BKW. We tried to climb to 10,000 to get on top of the clouds and icing. we made it to about 9,300 and couldn't climb anymore so we turned around direct to Charleston, WV (CRW). With the unforcast headwinds from the west, we had a groundspeed of about 70-80 kts and were accumulating ice really fast. Shot an ILS approach to minimums in CRW and landed. The icing conditions were not forecast to be that bad and yes this plane is certified into known icing.

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Science & Technology

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• ice
• icing
• shorts
• shorts 360
• aircraft
• aircraft ice

[baune7]

Yeah... I realized that after I filmed it and was wacing it. For some reason I had antenna in my mind but filmed the ditching hatch handle. Sorry.

[arubiandjaviator96]

@baune7 how is it flying the shorts 360 compare to the other turboprop aircraft example dash 8 or atr 72

[ercoman53]

I worked in nose that aircraft in A.A.B hangar, it was cold there too!

[mistershoebox74]

I was on 360 design team. Pleased to see anti ice systems worked!

[tbmavengerstuka]

wow. thats intense. Another 10 minutes and might have turned out a different way

[flywithabel]

Not a ramp worker... a pilot for another plane on ramp.

[hotbwayjoel]

WOW!

Ramp Worker - "What were you guys doing about 120?"

Pilot" No.... 77"

[flywithabel]

thanks for this vid man. that was a crazy night huh

[Lettenbichler]

Ice sucks big time when flying. I hate it.

This is pretty heavy- how long did you fly in these conditions

[nimitz808]

ACC! Ah memories...