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19th Apr 2012, 05:07

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Eastern Airlines

Any old Eastern guys out there? Flew with a few that talked about DC-9s with a foot of snow on the wings.

un official procedure was,

1. make sure you have >88% N1 t/o thrust
2. Vr + 20
3. snow blows off