The worst we saw was a 3 / 3 / 3 for runway 36R at one point. It was that way for a couple of hours but after treatment they all quickly went to all 5s. It actually seem to be getting worse when we departed from the standpoint of all the melting stuff was refreezing… I wouldn’t be surprised if it went back to 3s…
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What was really funny… or, at least an observation on the human condition… was that I briefed the FO prior to departure out of Charlotte that when we landed in Cincinnati, we would not raise the flaps after leaving the active runway. Instead, we would taxi to the ramp shut down the left engine, and I would exit the plane to examine the flap tracks to make sure there was no ice lodged in them. If they were clear, we would then be able to retract the flaps. You have to have either an engine or a GPU on the plane to move the flaps. Pilatus specifically says in icing conditions on a go-around to only retract the flaps to 8°.
Anyway, we have this great plan. And as we are exiting the runway… I’m in the left seat flying… concentrating on the taxi instructions… and the FO says: “lift dump stowed, flaps identified…” To which I of course pointed to the flap lever and said “verified”… and up they came! 
We really are creatures of habit. Fortunately, the runway was 5 5 5 100% wet… no ice or slush. So we didn’t have any contamination on the flaps. My FO apologized profusely… and I told her we were both responsible for that one. 
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The rules say Ice is a 3. Melted ice is water and hence a 5.
Norwegian operators complained about this as GRF initially didn’t allow for sanded ice. So we’ve got airport operators approval for a 3 or 4 SPWR, or Specially Prepared Winter Runway, which is warm sanded ice. With this the friction sometimes is better than bare asphalt, but they are only allowed to report a 4 as maximum.
They’re not too keen on this on the longer runways, where the underslung engined vacuum cleaners land and blast their fanblades, but on the STOL runways it’s great!
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I thought I might title that one “It was THIS big!” 
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Mosquito is still at Planes of Fame.
Planes of Fame’s P-40.
Planes of Fame’s P-26 is the featured aircraft at the March Hangar talk and flying event.
Wheels
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Nice. Also looks like you had to throttle it back a tad as well?
We had a little more power available to us, but our normal cruise speed is .M.80.
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What is this number? Is that Metric or something? I’ve never seen that number in any of the planes I fly… 
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I have to apologize to ATC at the end of my reply whenever they ask what our best forward is… Every once in awhile they don’t let off the mic switch early enough and I can catch the sigh…
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Well, it all looks the same from up there 
. The Global cruised at .85 and the newer ones at .87. The biggest limitation of the Challenger is the service ceiling of FL410. Typically we are stuck in the upper 30’s.
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I am so old I remember when airliners normally flew in the mid 20’s and getting over 30 was a big deal, at least to the passengers. First time I was on a flight where the Captain came on and said we were climbing to 32 I was definitely apprehensive.
Wheels
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I saw it once. In the motorglider. It wasn’t preceded by an M and only had kts written after it.
But i was the fastest MF for about 4 miles that day
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Who needs autothrottles when you can split 'em and skid through the skies?!
In seriousness on our way to KRAP (Rapid City, SD), our #1 engine indicated high vibration in the low pressure (LP) section. It was the First Officer’s leg so he managed the throttles while I kept the fuel balanced. Long story short (checklists, text w/ maintenance) , it all worked out. Arrived at KRAP early.
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We had a Citation that flew with split throttles like that. Err…not quite that dramatic…but they were split in cruise by half the width of the throttle knob. Annoying for my mild OCD about things lining up. 
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I never thought that my broken throttle would be kinda realistic. 
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