I am reading many comments about how the Capt or F/O did not get and inspect. On larger airliners and even regional jets deicing is done after pushback and aircraft is ready to go. Not when it's sitting there still boarding. When the operation is being done the engines or APU is running and flight crew getting ready to depart as quick as possible. It shows that a lot of you are either un knowledgeable of actual airport operations, or stuck on the Air Florida accident as a total basis of your critiquing.
Do you understand how De-icing operations work at airports currently? Your comment gives me impression you are not. When aircraft like this are de-icing or getting anti icing applied they are off the gate in a designated area close to the active runway as the fluids have short hold over times before their abilities wear off. This will also have them running engines or at min APU for a short time to taxi and take off. Flight crew do not get out and inspect after operations and rely on steards/ess to look and the de-icing people to do their job correctly.
E175s have landed here many times but only with American that I have seen. I assume because this was a United Flight which I have never seen have a E175 here they probably did not have a tow equipment for it. KCHA has had 777s, and even the presidential 747. They make it seem like the airport is to small when its Uniteds ground equipment issue.
For those knocking us Flight Simmers, perhaps no everyone is privy to the money required to get a PPL so simming is the best we can do. However that being said. I got to do the Delta Level D 737-200 Sim several times and with no actual flight training besides FSX I was able to start up from cold and dark, taxi, configure, fly, and land the aircraft well within survivable settings. I even managed a ILS approach with the ground only becoming visible at 100ft. All without using autopilot. I did crash few times when attempting out of ordinary maneuvers, and my first time flying a Level D down an ILS but learned rather quickly due ot my hours spent in FSX. I would also mention that training will prove its worth as I was told many single IRL pilots make many mistakes flying the multi-engine where as some of us simmers do not. Once again, don't knock or look down on simmers. I rather have a person with several hundred 737 sim hours than a single engine weekend warrior up in the front with a
