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De-Icing Systems for Regional Aircraft

Steve Scott

Monday, December 7th, 2009

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) will require scheduled airlines to either retrofit their existing fleet with ice-detection equipment or make sure the ice protection system activates at the proper time. For aircraft with an ice-detection system, the FAA proposes that the system alert the crew each time they should activate the ice protection system. The system would either turn on automatically or pilots would manually activate it. For aircraft without ice-detection equipment, the crew would activate the protection system based…

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