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Originally Posted by coldpilot (Post 145152)

:eek:

I'm still amazed at some of the things that people do in airplanes and all the misconceptions out there. I guess all I can do is scratch my head and wonder...:confused:

what do you mean?

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Originally Posted by mcartier713 (Post 145149)

i think i was around 10 hours when i went out one morning to meet up with my instructor to go up. we went out to do our pre-flight and there was frost covering the whole plane. he said "don't worry", left, and came back with a pitcher of water and just started pouring it over the wings... obviously the frost went away, but then it started freezing back into clear ice. he told me to hop in... i was like "uhhhh... isn't it bad to fly with ice on the wings?" and he's like no its ok as long as its not rime, it will start melting when we are climbing out, just make sure you build up a little more airspeed before you leave the runway. i was freaking out. but i let my airspeed get a little higher and we took right off and im still alive today. so i guess having an experiance like that with so few hours was good for me.

.....wow...thats all I gotta say about that...

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Originally Posted by mcartier713 (Post 145155)

what do you mean?

I shouldn't even have to explain.

i meant more by the whole "misconceptions" comment. whats misconceptions?

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Originally Posted by mcartier713 (Post 145226)

i meant more by the whole "misconceptions" comment. whats misconceptions?

There are a lot of things out there that people think or teach that are incorrect. There are many about ice and frost. The instructor you had was correct about trying to remove the frost but he though that clear ice was safe. That's what I'm talking about. Any amount of frost or ice on the wing is going to reduce lift and increase the weight of the aircraft. Doesn't matter if it is clear, rime, mixed or whatever the case may be. There are many other misconceptions too but I won't go into detail, I think you get the picture now.