Originally Posted by
Small cog
The AAIB report says that the Captain was PF and was also LTC. Makes you wonder ...
Makes it even more likely for something to happen, Captain more or less single crew and watching what the other guy is doing, agree he should be used to being exposed those kind of situations but no one os infalliable.
I used to fly a type similar to the ATR, underpowered and a slow climber, even moderate collections of ice would cause large speed reductions and even require level offs to maintain min ice speed.
Its not an inherant problem with the ATR, if you fly a low powered aircraft with poor climb performance you are going to spend lots of time climbing through icing levels and if you get slow or don't follow procedures any aircraft in that catagory will bite you.