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CARB AIR HOT, SELECT FULL POWER
Dont wait till the engine has cooled down!
If you are at cruise flight power and you get carb ice, selecting carb heat without adding power will still get more then enough heat into the engine to melt the ice.
If you let the engine actually stop due to carb ice then full throttle won't do you a lot of good. However I heartily agree with your point about taking early action to try to rectify a faltering engine. The best way to deal with an engine failure is not to do the perfect forced approach it is to
restore engine power. In the case of a carb ice induced engine failure there is a point of no return where you can't get the engine back with carb heat. If the first thing you do when the engine starts fading is spend a lot of time on some elaborate flight school forced appraoch ritual by the time you get to the carb heat you may have created your own totally preventable engine failure.
Bottom line: If you are flying along and you see a loss of power or the engine starts to run rough,
Immediately apply full carb heat