Following de-icing of the entire aircraft with type iv fluid the flight crew of a crj-200 found ther...

Narrative:

We had to deice with type 4. The type 4 fluid; which now has to be on the fuselage; ended up on our cockpit windows. Imagine; if you will; trying to look through a piece of opaque glass and trying to taxi an aircraft. We would have returned; but the taxi to the runway was a straight unobstructed route. All we could see was immediately forward; where our windshield wipers were able to clear. The type 4 didn't shed from the side windows until we were at a significant rate of speed. The wipers on high; were just barely able to keep up with the type 4 that was slogging across the windshield. Lesson learned; I'll never go with type 4 anywhere near my cockpit windows. Restricting where the deice crews can spray type 4 fluid would also help. Maybe not allowing them to spray it anywhere forward of the main cabin/service doors?

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Following de-icing of the entire aircraft with Type IV fluid the flight crew of a CRJ-200 found there vision obscured during taxi and takeoff by the fluid on their windshields. Wipers helped but barely kept pace until reaching the speed at which the fluid separated and blew off the surfaces.

Narrative: We had to deice with type 4. The type 4 fluid; which now has to be on the fuselage; ended up on our cockpit windows. Imagine; if you will; trying to look through a piece of opaque glass and trying to taxi an aircraft. We would have returned; but the taxi to the runway was a straight unobstructed route. All we could see was immediately forward; where our windshield wipers were able to clear. The type 4 didn't shed from the side windows until we were at a significant rate of speed. The wipers on high; were just barely able to keep up with the type 4 that was slogging across the windshield. Lesson learned; I'll never go with type 4 anywhere near my cockpit windows. Restricting where the deice crews can spray type 4 fluid would also help. Maybe not allowing them to spray it anywhere forward of the main cabin/service doors?

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1231486
Time
Date	201501
Local Time Of Day	0601-1200
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Light	Dawn
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Regional Jet 200 ER/LR (CRJ200)
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 121
Flight Phase	Taxi
Flight Plan	IFR
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Captain
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP)
Events
Anomaly	Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Flight Deck / Cabin / Aircraft Event Other / Unknown Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence

Following de-icing of the entire aircraft with type iv fluid the flight crew of a crj-200 found there vision obscured during taxi and takeoff by the fluid on their windshields. Wipers helped but barely kept pace until reaching the speed at which the fluid separated and blew off the surfaces.