Flying Illini
Hit me Peter!
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- Mar 9, 2003
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It has nothing to do with a non de-iced/anti-iced tail.What sucks worse is the "Ice Speeds". As the aircraft encounters ice, even though it was a lone cloud that gave you the brief encounter with light rime, the EICAS will get a ice speed message. Sooooooo, even though you are landing in 90 degree heat in Orlando, you have to adjust your speeds to ice speeds. This is because the engineers decided to not put anti ice systems on the tail. Not a big deal for the most part until you need to land in Key west or DCA. Then it is flaps full.