De Icing training
Have just got to read the threads on this subject having been away in warmer climates.
Its no surprise that there exists a great deal of ignorance on both the aviators side as to when to de ice and on the ground side as to what deicing means.
Many years ago I lost a lot of fellow aviators when a Britannia crashed in the USA and which deicing, or the lack of it, played a part. Therefore, now building and selling aircraft de icers as well as being involved in training on their use, the subject is somewhat 'personal' for me.
The KISS principle revails. Make clean and keep it clean, a statement from a previous thread. If its ice or looks like ice, get it off.
On the ground side, and this is a proven area of the cause of possible invertion after take off due incorrect deicing, an airport in the UK who wanted to introduce deicing for its customers this season laboured under the impression that you just ordered the vehicle, sat a short course and then went deicing!! No consideration of the regulations, fluids, training and so on. It even got to the point of enquiring one afternoon half way through a second classroom course if they would be ready to deice that night!!
Yes, training is the key for both those who fly and those who spray as the next accident is, unfortunately fast approaching the ground I fear.