Originally Posted by
rickair7777
I can't answer your specific question about CLE, but if it is snowing you really need to deice and get some anti-ice fluid applied too. Doesn't matter how light it looks...the NTSB databse is littered with smoking-hole incidents caused by not deicing.
Personally I would've deiced. I agree with you.... I am still realitivly new so I just kinda go with what the Cap says, just assumed its normal stuff not a problem. As CFI I was always the guy there an hour earlier with the credit card getting every last bit of frost off.
