My first encounter of frost during flight made a lasting impression on me. I was flying my glider at high altitude during winter, and on the descend I came into a slightly more humid air mass. The result was a very thin layer of frost on the wings, hardly visible at all. But the plane got noisy, sink rate increased dramatically, and she didn't really like to fly anymore below around 60 kts - the clean stall speed is 37 kts. Nothing to joke about.
Hendrik
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