Flightester...I couldn't agree with you more...it's like people saying Lears, or MU2s are dangerous...whatever...put a 2000 hour PIC in a Challenger on a snowy day...he's over his head...then when he crashes with 3 inches of ice on the wings...he bitches that the wing sucks...
Nothing, absolutely nothing to do with hours. Just with brains.
There are 2 types, one needs to put his hand on a glowing cooker, the other one just uses common sense to understand that a working cooker is hot.
Likewise it goes for pilots and ice. I was flying with such an experienced piece of human resource in a Challenger 300, this guy - beying the DO of an AOC operation - wanted us to fly with an airplane completely covered in hoar frost.
Me being polite, I suggested that it might be a bad idea, since the passenger flies very regularly and probably would not like a frosted airplane, he wanted to deice the wings ONLY - "the tail is deiced by design - donīt you remember the typerating" was his argument...the guy had something like 5000+ hours.
After me telling him I wonīt fly without a complete deicing, he strolled off babbling something about KingAirs that never had to be deiced etcetc.
The 300 wing is totally different than the 600 Series I was told, however I nowadays deice my nearly straight wing Sovereign as I deiced my KingAirs etcetc.
The Kazahkstan Accident seems to be more complicated btw., rumour has it that they changed the deicing trucks in the procedure since one runned empty and that they fail (or rather they denied to take one) to produce a sample of the second deicing machine for investigation.
If thats true , one has to be very careful in KAZ when having deiced...