Another one leg (flight) day today. Plane broke on the way into Lebanon, New Hampshire. The plane has an ice detector on the side of the nose that vibrates at a certain frequency and if the frequency of that vibration changes it sends us an "ICE CONDITION" message. We had all the ice protection stuff on to get the wings, tail, and engine inlets warmed up before we entered a cloud layer. A few seconds after we entered the cloud layer, we got the ice condition message and a few seconds after that, we got an "ICE DET FAIL" (Ice Detector Fail) message. We landed and called the company and they grounded the airplane.
We were supposed to be taking people to Tampa, Florida and they arrived early but were extremely understanding (which is almost an understatement) about the situation. Their recovery aircraft got to Lebanon about 1.5 hrs after their original departure time and they left about 15-20 minutes later.
When an issue comes up that delays an owner, you never know how they are going to take it and some owners get extremely upset and will curse you out and call you every name in the book in the middle of the FBO. This particular group made no complaints whatsoever about the delay, which makes everything so much easier to deal with.
Flying home tomorrow for maybe a day, maybe more, depending on if I get called for jury duty. (I got the summons about a month ago.
#nt