I was operating out of Houston, TX, (KIAH) this morning and due to frost we asked ops for a spray.
Since there is no info in the Jepp manual for de-icing in IAH (at least not in my Jeps) I had to ask how such an operations is conducted. I would appear that the answer is 'with some confusion'.
It took only half an hour for a truck to arrive and have the deed done - long enough to have a good listen on the ramp and ops freqs.
Listening to the radio is would appear that there were several other people at IAH this morning (air crews, ground crews, ops controllers, ramp control) that also had never seen a spray operation. Here's to all the guys in the spray truck - good job but next time it would be better to have better communications than a
"thumbs up".