I think this is an interesting topic, and lets try and keep it away from Colgan 3407 for right now until we have more details. I'm all up for learning new things, so lets talk about this.



I can say I didn't know much about icing (or tail stalls), other than what I was taught in the books during my flight training. Growing up in the south I never experienced icing until I actually started flying the jet at work. Since then I've gone back and read up on more information, and of course I learn the most while actually experiencing it.

One thing that bothers me about the CRJ is the fact there is no anti-ice on the tail. Bombardier says it's aerodynamically impossible to get icing on the tail, and that may be true to an extent, but I'm not 100% confident in it. I guarantee if you put me in tail icing right now I probably wouldn't know what was going on. I'd really like to know more (have always wanted to) about that sort of icing, what effects it has, how you can tell, and what you need to do about it.

Like I said - interesting topic. I try and learn as much as I can, but this is something I'm not very familiar with at all. I know as much as most people do about wing stalls, but not tail stalls.