Dear Aerobat pilot.
As a previous poster said, that AA aircraft was pretty sure deiced before. You can see the runback of the yellow fluid at about 0:35 when the aileron turns yellowish. Turn the clip on HD+Full screen and enjoy the modern marvels of a pseudoplastic type II fluid starting to shear off at a speed of about 100 KTAS
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not pretty but also not such a brainer you discuss here. its just snow which gets blown off"
The only not so pretty thing is, that you might have a pilot licence....
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the very few of us here which earn their money with sitting in the cockpit more than once made a take off with some snow on the wing or the tail"
No dude, i think the majority here never takes off with snow on the wing or tail. Thats because it is here the
Professional PRUNE
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the vast majority of the others may not understand that its today a tough market and a small margin between doing something dangerous and satisfying your company. definitvly you will not get the job done by just reading the SOP,s .
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Wrong again aerobat. Especially in a tough market one mistake will take down the whole company. Standart operational procedures are exactly how you get the job done. Not by just reading them as you said, but also executing the SOPs as they are supposed to.
Talk to your chief pilot and tell him that your SOPs are not good enough to get the job done the way the company is satisfied. Show him the video of "blown away snow" and how cool that was and how much you would have saved money instead of having it wasted for deicing. Also you might add, that you are operating close to the margin of doing something dangerous on a daily basis to make the ends meet in this tough world. I am sure that some fellow PPRUNErs are also interested in, if you got the P45 and what his verbal reply was
