Icing no Problem for Aeroflot

[B1900 Mech]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=925MgqyU2NA&feature=player_embedded

 

[KNOTS]

OMG I'm never ever riding on that airline.

 

[flyboyike]

As us Russian speakers sometimes exclaim "Ни хуя себе!" (loosely translatable as Holy Smokes except not smokes).

 

[SMcC]

Oh my God!!!
They didn't crash!:nuts:

They got the job done though. Thousands upon thousands of dollars are wasted each winter by de-icing that just isn't necessary. This video is a little extreme, but guys you can use a little common sense and not worry about the know it all in the cabin that might see a trace of snow on your wing.

 

[wt219200]

Oh my God!!!
They didn't crash!:nuts:

They got the job done though. Thousands upon thousands of dollars are wasted each winter by de-icing that just isn't necessary. This video is a little extreme, but guys you can use a little common sense and not worry about the know it all in the cabin that might see a trace of snow on your wing.

How much extra runway do you think they ate up?

 

[SLUF4]

lighten up, guys..it's just some dry snow! but seriously-that was ridiculous

 

[PUNISHER]

OMG I'm never ever riding on that airline.

Probably a good idea considering they have 9,850 fatalities!

http://www.baaa-acro.com/Liste des deces par compagnie.htm

 

[flythere]

Oh my God!!!
They didn't crash!:nuts:

They got the job done though. Thousands upon thousands of dollars are wasted each winter by de-icing that just isn't necessary. This video is a little extreme, but guys you can use a little common sense and not worry about the know it all in the cabin that might see a trace of snow on your wing.

Ha, tell that to a check airman at my outfit that got hammered by the FED! Some MX clown was riding in the back, by the wing, there was a trace of frost on top of wing, not sure if it was wet or frozen, the bottom looked fine according to SOP. Sometime before pushback he took a picture with his cell phone. When he arrived in OKC, he asked someone in the know who said it appeared to be frost, of the frozen kind and they took action against the company!!

When in doubt take a squirt!! This could just as easily been your aircraft with a little some-some on the wing and some student pilot with a camera will broadcast it on youtube!

Then you too could be doing the dance for your chief pilot or DO.

 

[JT12345]

It looks like they tried to rotate with no success about 30 seconds into takeoff run in video then accelerated some more for the second successful rotation.

Don't know the weights, but their takeoff run is about 15 seconds longer than other 320s on the videos.

Initial thrust to nose wheel off is about 45 seconds compared to 30 seconds with a clean Airbus on youtube.

 

[igneousy2]

lighten up, guys..it's just some dry snow! but seriously-that was ridiculous

Ahh...no it wasn't.

 

[tubineotter]

I know yall dont remember it but thats how we did it back in the day, russia is just a few decades behind us. Most of the time it works out. Bunch of Girls!

 

[SLUF4]

Ahh...no it wasn't.

i was just joking

 

[Jar Jar]

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[Mercyful Fate]

Ha, tell that to a check airman at my outfit that got hammered by the FED! Some MX clown was riding in the back, by the wing, there was a trace of frost on top of wing, not sure if it was wet or frozen, the bottom looked fine according to SOP. Sometime before pushback he took a picture with his cell phone. When he arrived in OKC, he asked someone in the know who said it appeared to be frost, of the frozen kind and they took action against the company!!

When in doubt take a squirt!! This could just as easily been your aircraft with a little some-some on the wing and some student pilot with a camera will broadcast it on youtube!

Then you too could be doing the dance for your chief pilot or DO.

Exactly....never know this day and age when something will come back to haunt you. Not the way to get your 15 minutes of fame on Youtube!

 

[tailwindz]

Sec. 121.629 — Operation in icing conditions.

(a).........................................


(b) No person may take off an aircraft when frost, ice, or snow is adhering to the wings, ............................


That argument could be made. If you look at the video you can see that they cleared a portion of the wing to see if it was adhering. Gravity is not the same as adhering.

We in the US, live in the world of the lawyers. Unfortunately. Before the glass viewing, button pushing, ipod wearing, back pack crowd jumps on me for being an idiot, tell me when the last air carrier accident was due to snow sitting on the wing.

Do not go with Air Florida. That had nothing to do with ice on the wings. They produced lift and flew. NTSB.gov. Learn something. I will give you a clue. EPR.

Don't get me wrong, I follow the same lawyer rules you all do and waste tons of deicing and anti icing fluid a year. Just don't be so quick to judge from afar, when the proof in in the pudding. It flew. The miracle is not because it had snow sitting on top of the wing, the miracle is that it is an airbus and it flew.