Originally Posted by
Double Back
To a certain extent I can understand forgetting to turn on the pitot heat (who didn't miss an item in his career?), but a plane like this doesn't it have a clearly visible lighted annunciation of that situation? No "all indicator lights out before T/O" philosophy?
It does actually.. pictures on the Russian forums are floating around with very prominent yellow warning messages displayed on ECAM should the heating be off or failed