Trial by Ice
Air Facts
MAY 5, 2025
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! I was to realize much later that I had just enrolled in the School of Hard Knocks for instrument pilots. Up we went, trading airspeed for altitude. What had happened?
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