In article ,
Paul Tomblin wrote:
somebody else saying that you should hold off retracting the gear after
take-off for a little while to blow the slush and snow off.

My understanding is that you don't want the gear to freeze in the gear
well, so you leave it down after takeoff to ensure that anything that's
going to freeze will, and then if the gear is going to get stuck it's
stuck down, not up.

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Ben Jackson

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