http://blog.aopa.org/leadingedge/?p=450 A place to discuss safety-of-flight issues, procedures, techniques, and judgment. Sat, 25 May 2013 13:42:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blog.aopa.org/leadingedge/?p=450&cpage=1#comment-27160 Jeff Perkins Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:08:59 +0000 http://blog.aopa.org/asfblog/?p=450#comment-27160 Bruce,
Your comment on the cost of deicing brought back a wallet pain I experienced myself just lsat year. Being a renter pilot, the airport I use to rent from locally has always had a little garden sprayer that they use for deicing the aircraft when you don’t want to wait for the sun to do it’s work. I flew up to my parents in N. Ky and as usual landed and parked at the Lunken Field in Southern OH for the holidays last year. I planned a quick get out the morning after and when I arrived I found the frost had created an entirely new paint job. I too, did not know any better, so I asked the lady at the counter if they had deicing, she said sure, it was something a little high, but she gave me the price per gallon. I was thinking of my home FBO at Morristown Murrell and the fact that they used maybe 2 gallons max of a 3 gallon sprayer… so heck $20 to $30 didn’t seem all that much to pay to get in the air an hour or two earlier than waiting on the sunlight. HAH! I got all sweaty when they came out with the firetruck and blasted that plain…. I think the final bill was somewhere around $240 to coat my little 172 with goo! Some lessons just dont’ come cheap!

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