wethereyet said:
...they (REX) are not getting anything they don't already have.
Hmmmmmm............I'm not so sure about that.
In fact, I'd say that they probably ARE going to get something that they don't already have.............. in the form of an airworthiness directive relating to ATA30 Ice*Protection*- Flight in Icing Conditions/Airplane Flight Manual Limitations and Performance*Sections*–*Operating*Limitations,*as a direct result of an incident on January 2, 2006, when a Saab 340B aeroplane encountered icing conditions during en-route climb and departed controlled flight.
The ATSB has investigated three SAAB 340 inflight incing events in the past eight years...............in each, airspeed decayed due to ice accumulation, and two of the events resulted in aerodynamic stall AND the aircraft departing controlled flight!
That's really scary stuff!
See:
http://www.ntsb.gov/recs/letters/2006/A06_48_51.pdf
So, even if the SAAB 2000 is a standing joke in REX, the aerodynamic stall events of the SAAB340 as a result of ice accumulation definitely shouldn't be!
