de.icing
tigger2k8 as i said before....on that same night in falling snow we were putting 700 to 800 ltrs on AB320s and they had only been on the ground for about 45 mins..........the AB330 had been sitting there for a couple of hours at least...
i am with you...if my names on the chit....it gets what it needs to get rid of the ice....or i will not do it......no engineer can tell what its like on top of the aircraft.
in fact in the early hours of the next morning we put over 700 ltrs on a small prop job saab that was doing a mail flight.....with the amount of ice that had built up on its wings and tail i cant see how you could have done it with less....unless you hit it with a big stick.
one other thing.....has any body heard about washing snow off with hot water ...then do the de.ice....sounds like a bad idea to me...never seen it done myself...but sombody did ask if we could do it???