diff --git a/modules/deeplearning/icing_fcn.py b/modules/deeplearning/icing_fcn.py
index 1364b5c740b21b484342b638037c311d37f4a995..07aa8adfaf53ee2420b457d4d2849ca6efcb108c 100644
--- a/modules/deeplearning/icing_fcn.py
+++ b/modules/deeplearning/icing_fcn.py
@@ -565,7 +565,6 @@ class IcingIntensityFCN:
         # activation = tf.nn.relu
         # activation = tf.nn.elu
         activation = tf.nn.leaky_relu
-        momentum = 0.99
 
         num_filters = len(self.train_params) * 10
 
@@ -642,8 +641,6 @@ class IcingIntensityFCN:
         print('build fully connected layer')
         num_filters = input_layer.shape[3]
 
-        drop_rate = 0.5
-
         # activation = tf.nn.relu
         # activation = tf.nn.elu
         activation = tf.nn.leaky_relu