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From: John Slade <jslade@canardaviation.com>
To: Rotary motors in aircraft <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
Sent: Thu, April 14, 2011 11:11:10 AM
Subject: [FlyRotary] Re: Glider skills

OK, since we're quiet, I have a story too. Emergencies are usually over very quickly. This one lasted 20 minutes....
I took on severe icing during a long voice controlled decent through 15k of cloud in a Jet Provost and quickly became unable to climb on full power. Ended up at 400 feet, full power, clean, 2 miles out and still descending. Crossed the fence, still clean and at full power with the controller yelling "gear, gear, gear". The clunk of the gear preceded the thump of touchdown by about a second. It took quite a few beers to get over that one. :)


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