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Icing in Flight
Part I
by Tom Clements
This article is written in hopes that it will serve as a useful reminder about how to configure your King Air for in-flight icing encounters. If you have any significant amount of flight time in a King Air, I suppose that you have become quite comfortable with flying and handling the airplane in icing conditions. At first, many pilots fear that those big wing leading edges will collect ice with a vengeance. Yet, with experience, the operators come to realize that the wing does exceedingly well during ice encounters. In fact, the smaller leading edges of the tail surfaces collect ice significantly faster than the wing. Overall, however, when properly configured and flown, the King Air is one of the most desirable flying machines in which to ride when icing becomes a concern.
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AUGUST 2021