No, not necessarily new. I've seen her up there before. But let's think this through here. A mechanic for Comair, and airline of entirely CRJs, had no idea how to start the APU. Then...had no idea how to do a check that she was tasked to do. All they had to do was hold on to the ice detctor and see if the ICE caution message comes on. But she thought it had to do something with the engines...................