17-year cicadas of any concern to aircraft?

Some areas seem to have a permanent haze of bugs.

Try landing at any Mississippi valley airport (Prairie du Chien comes
especially to mind) on a hot summer's evening.

You can practically hear the bugs on short final...

Which is why we use Lemon Pledge on the leading edges. The bugs just wipe
right off! ;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
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In article QySnc.66111$Ik.4885529@attbi_s53, Jay Honeck wrote:
Which is why we use Lemon Pledge on the leading edges. The bugs just wipe
right off! ;-)

I agree with that - before every flight in the bug season, I'd Pledge
the leading edges/struts on the C140. Made it much easier to get the
Houston goo off as well as the bugs (just the Houston air would turn the
leading edges brown with this horrible gooey brown goo).

Had a slightly different problem, but fortunately not a sticky one last
weekend. The Auster is bright yellow, and it attracted a phenomenal
number of insects. Fortunately, they all blew off on the first takeoff.

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