Originally Posted by
popcopy
Leaving DTW this morning I was a passenger on a GoJet flight. Musta been the first flight for the jet because the wings were frosty. After pushback, I was dumbstruck when the crew skipped the deice pad and went ahead and blasted off. Is there guidance in your FOM that allows a departure with a certain amount of frost on the top of the wings?
Question is, why did you allow it to happen without saying something being a fellow pilot and knowing that it’s proabbly not safe.