"Rick Durden" wrote in message
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Lot of bad information and old wives' tales on this thread. sigh

Unfortunately, Rick is adding to that bad information.

Outside of clouds, when you are flying in snow it will not stick to
the airframe. Even heavy wet snow will not stick, so airframe icing
is not a problem.

Do NOT believe this. I have flown outside of clouds in snow and seen it
stick. As I mentioned, typically only a very light amount winds up on the
forward surfaces of the airplane, but it is absolutely false that snow
outside of clouds will not stick to the airframe.

The rest of his post (except where he revisits this point) is informative,
and does introduce a couple of points not already mentioned.

Pete