Phantom 4P Propeller Icing In Cold Foggy Weather

[ianwood]

Freezing fog is perfect conditions for icing. Good lesson to learn for everyone. Icing can happen very quickly. Once it starts to accumulate, you have very little time before your lifting performance deteriorates to the point the drone can no longer fly.

 

[sshephard]

Freezing fog is perfect conditions for icing. Good lesson to learn for everyone. Icing can happen very quickly. Once it starts to accumulate, you have very little time before your lifting performance deteriorates to the point the drone can no longer fly.

The ice you see in my original photos formed in about 4 minutes.


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[brolland]

I'm very surprised it stayed up with that amount of ice on the leading edges of your props. The props are the wings of the sUAS and any heavy icing will cause you to have a decreased performance from any prop. I'd be careful and pay attention to your local weather and touch up on temp inversions relating to dew points and general weather.