For three days starting very early AM Weds, untill very early AM Friday we were operating in an area of some pretty lousy weather in our twin, a fully de-iced presurized machine which is able to carry a good load of ice without any real decline in performance, but looking outside at the unprotected parts of the airframe and hearing the thuds from chunks hitting the ice shields around the forward baggage doors my thoughts turned to this young man who was flying what to me is an overgrown 172 with a turbine bolted on the nose . Why Lord oh why would a company fly such a machine in such weather as this, simply to deliver "Pop and Chips? "During these three days we delayed one flight for two hours untill the -ZR moved North of our track, then delayed our return to home base by eight hours for a similar reason, my F/O and I will have Christmass with our families, thats way more important than a food run! End of sermon, I dont normally preach, but this nonsense has to stop, Regards, Clunck.
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