on flying with polished ice on your wing

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Originally Posted by punkalouver

It is really just a matter of using common sense and knowing your aircraft. Sometimes you can't get every last millimeter of frost off your critical surfaces. If you are in an F-28 or baby DC-9, you never screw around with contamination. If you are on a Twin Otter lightly loaded, with other considerations taken into account, you may decide to go. I did.

The Twin Otter has been known to pitch down viciously with flaps extended past 10 and ice on the tail.

Glad that it worked out for you that time.