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I don't think anything too bad could happen when landing light aircraft on slippery but long runway. I was doing some winter flying and was landing pa28 on slippery runway (compressed snow) and I didn't noticed any difference until i started pressing brakes which had virtually no effect on deceleration. On touchdown you have a lot of aerodynamic authority on your controls so runway friction doesn't really matter unless you have super strong crosswind that could blow you out the runway i guess.


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