Maybe this is just the whiskey talking after a long 5 day trip but this has to be a colossal misfire on the part of the FAA. Adding unnecessary inflight workload and further convoluting procedures that have worked for many years seems to be classic governmental red tape. As was said earlier, if the fuselage is such a critical surface, why don't we have anti-ice ability for those prolonged downwind vectors at 4,000 while accumulating moderate rime?

Pretty fun to have a surplus of green type 4 sludge oozing down the windshield right at V1, turning an already challenging departure into a 0/0 takeoff. Abort? Yeh that'll help, considering the runway's an unplowed mess and I already can't see to begin with.

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