Originally Posted by
SAABaroowski
Our airplanes are great at picking up ice and getting rid of it, but Ice is a very funny thing, it sometimes slowly builds up without being detected, remember AUTOMATION, or ICE DETECTORS, or Stick Pushers, Windsheer Warnings, etc all of these things are there to HELP us, but it is up to the HUMAN PILOT to FLY THE AIRPLANE, because we are the ones who know when our planes are not flying like they should........
Human ingenuity and technology is not more advanced then mother nature and the elements.......
Well said young man, when you're in actual icing, the hair on the back of your neck should start standing up a little bit. A little fear and respect is good and we should never completely rely on automatiopn for handling known ice.