getting to
grips with

COLD WEATHER

OPERATIONS

AIRBUS INDUSTRIE

Flight Operations Support - Customer Services Directorate

A Flight Operations View

AIRBUS INDUSTRIE

FOREWORD

The purpose of this document is to provide Airbus operators with an understanding of Airbus aircraft operations in cold weather conditions, and address such aspects as aircraft contamination, performance on contaminated runways, fuel freezing limitations and altimeter corrections.
This brochure summarizes information contained in several Airbus Industrie documents and provides related recommendations.
At the end of each chapter, a summary of main information to be remembered is highlighted and grouped together in the overview chapter.
Should any deviation appear between the information provided in this brochure and that published in the applicable AFM, MMEL, FCOM, AMM, the latter shall prevail at all times
All readers are encouraged to submit their questions and suggestions, regarding this document, to the following address:
AIRBUS INDUSTRIE
Flight Operations Support
Customer Services Directorate
1, Rond Point Maurice Bellonte, BP 33
31707 BLAGNAC Cedex - FRANCE

TELEX: AIRBU 530526F
SITA: TLSBI7X     
Telefax:33 5 61 93 29 68 or 33 5 61 93 44 65

AI/ST-F 945.9843/99

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Foreword Overview Useful information in Airbus Industrie documentation Glossary / Definitions Abbreviations
A. AIRCRAFT CONTAMINATION IN FLIGHT A1 Icing principles A1.1 Atmospheric physics at a glance

A1.2 Meteorology at a glance

A1.3 Iced shapes accreted in flight

A1.4 Other types of contamination

A2 Icing certification A2.1 Aerodynamics at a glance

A2.2 The history of icing certification

A2.3 Large jet icing certification

A3 In-flight ice protection A3.1  
Ice protection means

A3.1.1 Hot bleed air

A3.1.2 Electrical heating

A3.1.3 Mechanical de-icing boots

A3.2  
Airbus procedures for flight in icing conditions A3.3  
Ice detection A3.3.1 General A3.3.2 The Airbus Dual Advisory Ice Detection
System (DAIDS)
B AIRCRAFT DE-ICING/ANTI ICING ON THE GROUND
B1 General
B2 De-/anti-icing awareness checklist - the basic

requirements

B3 De-/anti-icing aircraft on the ground:

.When, Why and How.

B3.1 Communication
B3.2 Conditions which cause aircraft icing

B3.3 Checks to determine the need to de-/anti-ice

B3.3.1 The clean aircraft concept B3.3.2 External inspection B3.3.3 Clear ice phenomenon B3.3.4 General checks
B3.4  
Responsibility: the de-/anti-icing decision

B3.4.1 Maintenance / ground crew decision

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B3.4.2  Commander’s decision
　
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