A colleage of mine operated to the frozen north of China the other day in freezing fog and snow at temps of down to -28C. He was de-iced or perhaps anti-iced with a fluid that was a complete enigma to everyone as to what type it was. Apart from the complete lack of knowledge about cold weather procedures displayed by the helper in the right seat; there was no holdover charts in the aircraft. Upon further investigation we discovered that despite the fact that this airline has been operating for ten years in these conditions there are NO holdover charts anywhere
in the company!!!
So help us out here. We (you can guess who we refers to) would like to at least have our own personal copies of holdover charts, even if the other pilots are not interested in using them. I am sure they are a worldwide standard.
Anyone care to publish them here or direct me to a website as I have had no luck.
That will be the easy part. The next part is finding out just what that fluid was. Does anyone have a definitive list of all the de/anti ice fluids in use around the world and in particular what might be used in China? Again I have not been able to find it on the web.
Thanks..
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