Originally Posted by
morno
Ohh and no Australian exceptionalism here, if anything I’m picking up some RJ exceptionalism because they can read a checklist on how to de-ice. The number of pilots from Europe that I’ve flown with that laugh when I ask how hard it was to do all the de-icing etc., and explain that once you’ve done it a few times it’s a non-event, tells me that it really is a non-event.
If that was aimed at my post, you apparently didn't read the entire paragraph. My comment was in the context of a winter storm (not an unusual occurrence) in Chicago. Which, obviously you have absolutely no experience of.
Deicing on its own isn't difficult and yes, pretty much a non-event. However, throw in everything else I mentioned (Again, ops normal for ORD) and it's inherently made more difficult and far more than you'd have to deal with in Australia, in my experience. I would think that's obvious.
And BTW, I'm too old and far too jaded to care anymore about any perceived exceptionalism, or for that matter who fly's what.