Originally Posted by PJ2
Originally Posted by FrequentSLF
It is quite worrying that you professional pilots are arguing whether is safer to take off with snow on the wings or to fly with an engine out (well you still have 3 working).
Is it only worrying because the discussion is taking place "in public"?
I took Andy to mean that he found it worrying that any professional pilot should be in any doubt as to which was the lunacy and which was the SOP
Originally Posted by PJ2
Whether the aircraft, their passengers and their employer were at risk will never be known because the takeoff was successful and as such is being accepted by some as evidence that the "right" decision was made. As most professional aviators know, that is not how "success" in aviation is judged.
Quite.