Originally Posted by DublinFlyer

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.