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Trial by Ice

Air Facts

After all, I had just aced my checkride. This particular 172 normally cruised at 120 mph indicated airspeed, but with the ice it would barely do 90 mph and that required full throttle! It was also destroying the propellers air foils causing a loss of thrust. What else was there to know? What had happened?

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