This is going to get interesting. Thanks to the total lack of FAA regulations for contaminated runways, you are going to end up in a situation where US carriers and a certain ME carrier will be quite happy operating off the "slippery when wet" runway, but the JAR operators wont be allowed!
You better get that friction tester out
With the "Advisory Data" available to FAA operators, a wet/slippery runway will result in a v-speed decrement and possibly a weight decrement (Depending on the number of engines), but a ICY runway usually prohibits takeoff.
Mutt.
[ 05 October 2001: Message edited by: mutt ]