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Originally Posted by edgemar
Question for you guys:
If you fly into icing conditions while descending to an airport and you forget to turn the auto-ignition on and the engines flame out (due to icing) is it possible to re-light them while still flying in those conditions?
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I am not a comercial pilot, so I don't know their rules or engine restart capabilities.
In military aircraft, the ones I have flown, there is no auto re-start because the engine may be damaged due to a number of issues. An auto re-start may add "fuel to the fire" so to speak, and complicate an already interesting evolution.
Manual restart.
There are also rules in the military, at least the Navy, for intentional flight into known icing conditions: The type of icing conditions they limit flight into are based on type, model series of aircraft. For instance, my trusty H-60 is has lower limits than a P-3 and subsequent Maritime Patrol Aircraft.
Also, we are directed by policy to turn on anti-icing equipment in certain regimes, which in my case included leading edge of rotor blades, engine inlets, Pitot Static System, windshields and other stuff I can't remember
Unless it was a no kidding operational requirement, I avoided flight into any known icing conditions.