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To: rellic
I read somewhere that ATR’s don’t have anti icing capabilities for wings.

The black strips at the leading edges of the wings are deicing boots.

64 posted on 08/10/2024 10:08:56 AM PDT by Ol' Dan Tucker (For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petard., -- Hamlet, Act 3, Scene 4)
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To: Ol' Dan Tucker

I retired from Boeing 24 years ago.
So it is very possible that ATR fixed that problem since then.
It was killing them and passengers in the 1990’s


76 posted on 08/11/2024 12:26:43 PM PDT by rellic (rough)
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