ZapBrannigan
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Does anyone know what color type III deicing fluid is?
Type I is pink
Type II is amber
Type IV is green
Type I is pink
Type II is amber
Type IV is green
I remember going on 4 hour flights and landing with the airplane not just dripping but lines of de-ice fluid coming off every corner.If you think Type IV is nasty then you have never seen Type III. Not only is it nasty but it is sticky as well.
Why the one-two application?
You can put Type III on without Type I. My former airline used it at almost every outstation save a few.
Yeah it takes a loooong time for all the deice fluid to get off of an airplane. Our airplanes are pretty much always orange in the winter because we're constantly deicing.
No one has mentioned it yet, but you can't put II, III or IV on without a base of I first.
As long as the aircraft is clean I don't see why you physically couldn't...but if there's freezing precip out, the machine likely isn't clean. At least at my work anyway. We only hangar for maintenance. (cheap!)Disagree. Example - Aircraft in hangar, clean airframe. There is no reason you would apply type I prior to type iv, and I am yet to see anything in the H.O.T.'s, AFM or deice fluid manufacturers procedures that say otherwise.