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Old 1st Dec 2019, 17:31
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Originally Posted by 421dog
Last time I was in Chamberlain, deicing capabilities were nil, and hangar space was minimal...
Don't know the place, but Mansfield's post led me to check and I couldn't find any online reference to deicing facilities or any mention of an aircraft being deiced there.

Also, there aren't a whole lot of accessible weather stations in the area, but, at around noon on Saturday, stations around the region were reporting winds (in MPH) from NNE at between 25-30, with gusts up to 40, inconsistent with the data posted above. Of course, inconsistency in weather stations is a fact of life, even when conditions are actually nearly identical. OTOH, out there on those plains, when it's windy in one place, it's probably windy in most others within a rather large distance.

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