I am sure a lot of you de-icers reading this have gone up in the basket/ladder and had a shock when you touched the water droplets and found it solid!
Nope, never happened... However, after a decade of de-icing, i am no longer shocked by pilots refusing to climb the ladder and refusing to de-ice because their first class inspection from the L1-door tells them them "it's just water"...
Me: "Ehhh.. It's ice.. I checked it.. The ladder is still on the wing, if you want to check it again..."
Ignorant pilot: "No, it's fine... It's just water..."
I learned about the effects of mixing sub-zero temperatures with water before they let me de-ice aircrafts, so the first time i found ice on a wing, i was NOT surprised...
One would think somebody thought of telling the pilots too, before they let them fly the aircrafts...