Narrative:

We were anticipating a visual approach with weather reported as a high ceiling and 10 miles visibility. We were in icing conditions so the pilot flying (PF) had the flight spoilers out to keep the N2 appropriate to provide icing protection. Leveling off we were working with ATC to get the appropriate procedure if the we were unable to get the visual approach to the airport. Leaving the flight spoilers out combined with gusty winds the stick shaker activated momentarily. PF immediately increased thrust appropriately and the spoilers were retracted. Aircraft state was immediately back in a desirable state and we had the airport in sight. We were a little high and not in a great approach position so we elected to go around for a second visual approach.the root cause of this event was failure to monitor the airspeed. There were many contributing factors we were task saturated as we became uncertain this would be a visual approach. Along with icing conditions and using the spoilers for increased N2; and gusting winds.this was certainly a chain of events that started with poor planning. The weather reports were leading us to believe a visual approach was appropriate; but perhaps we could have acted sooner to elect an approach reducing task saturation. The gusty winds played a small factor but a little more thrust a few seconds sooner and we would have been well above shaker speed.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: CRJ-200 Captain reports descending in icing conditions with spoilers extended and N2 up for warmer bleed air. The spoilers are forgotten during level off and airspeed is allowed to decrease to stick shaker speed which is quickly corrected. This action produces an unstabilized approach and a go-around is initiated.

Narrative: We were anticipating a visual approach with weather reported as a high ceiling and 10 miles visibility. We were in icing conditions so the Pilot Flying (PF) had the flight spoilers out to keep the N2 appropriate to provide icing protection. Leveling off we were working with ATC to get the appropriate procedure if the we were unable to get the visual approach to the airport. Leaving the flight spoilers out combined with gusty winds the stick shaker activated momentarily. PF immediately increased thrust appropriately and the spoilers were retracted. Aircraft state was immediately back in a desirable state and we had the airport in sight. We were a little high and not in a great approach position so we elected to go around for a second visual approach.The root cause of this event was failure to monitor the airspeed. There were many contributing factors we were task saturated as we became uncertain this would be a visual approach. Along with icing conditions and using the spoilers for Increased N2; and gusting winds.This was certainly a chain of events that started with poor planning. The weather reports were leading us to believe a visual approach was appropriate; but perhaps we could have acted sooner to elect an approach reducing task saturation. The gusty winds played a small factor but a little more thrust a few seconds sooner and we would have been well above shaker speed.

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.