If you are the captain, and you are lined up for takeoff, and you are not 100% sure that your aircraft is clean, you must NOT depart.
Well said
Smudger, this advice needs repeating every year, even every flight.
For those unfamiliar with Fred Dibnah; he was the archetype ‘back yard mechanic’ (with university degrees in the subject). There are many good lessons to be taken from his biography; as a steeple-jack ‘one false step and you are saying hello to St Peter’. Another, ‘of all the accidents I had, they occurred when I was distracted’.
In aviation, there are three types of ice.
Good Ice, Bad Ice and Hazardous Ice.
Good Ice is found in the galley.
One of the objectives of flight is to keep the aircraft from shaking.
If it shakes, it is either too fast or too slow.
Or covered in ICE !
annon