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Trial by Ice

Air Facts

We finally broke out on top into dazzling sunlight carrying about one inch of rime ice. 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! What had happened? Then my worst fears became reality.

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The Flying Bear Goes to Beantown | Part 4, Going Missed

Photographic Logbook

We were assigned a slightly ridiculous alteration to the route I filed: MANCH T316 LAMMS T608 ROC that had us flying past Sodus to the Rochester VOR before setting up for Sodus. But I accepted the clearance knowing that I could change it with a local Approach control like Syracuse. I logged about 0.7 hours of IMC time on the flight.

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