dear Oluf,
I read your anti-ice plea 'for your grandmother to understand' and found it not only very amusing but very interesting indeed. (I am a frequent SLF, and being an interpreter, was able to read your text in danish)
However, your analysis refers only to stator/rotor blade ice formation while taxiing and the way to get rid of it prior to TO and after landing. So if I understand you correctly, what you call 'the hesitation' of BA 038' engines could have been caused by ice debris, but can what happened to this flight (engines throttling down to somewhere above flight idle and staying there) be described as mere 'hesitation'? or do you think there wasn t enough time for the engines to resume normal operation? and how would this relate to the cavitation found in the HP pumps?
and, following from your theory, no 'green approach for you in certain weather conditions?
Fly safely.
Last edited by borghha; 1st May 2008 at 12:21.
Reason: changed 'descent' into 'approach'