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Old 5th Mar 2007, 09:05
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Few Cloudy

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The word Dick Head comes to mind

Hardly have we got everyone trained up to take de-icing seriously (see uncountable accidents due to improper or not performed de-icing) then out comes a chief with the attitude of a raw beginner and calls it all into question.

Show him the records someone - show him the pictures of the thick (inches thick) sheet of ice which was taken off the Finnair MD-80 wing after the snow had been removed - show him - ah! well maybe just fire him!

It seems to be a chief pilot thing. Swissair once had its chief of operations taxying a DC-10 to the runway in ZRH, when a following aircraft informed him "You have snow on your wings!" his reply could have come from our friend here, "It will blow off during Take Off!" Worse still, he then took off anyway.

After that he became known as Snowy. Well it's better than Smoky I suppose, which it well could have been (as in black smoking hole).

Yes, that name in the title seems about right.

FC.
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