"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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Well, it's your prerogative as PIC to make a decision to do that. Not
something that I feel is wise though. You never know whether that other
pilot has defined the icing he experienced correctly, nor do you know
whether the conditions he found are really as bad as it might get.

Peter,

The more I think about this issue as well as your strategy of flying in
forecast ice but not reported ice, I would summarize the situation as
follows. It appears that you are flying under a protocol which has been
known to result in fatal accidents in the past, i.e. flying a non-known-ice
piston airplane under conditions of forecast but not reported icing
conditions. On the other hand I am flying under a protocol which to my
knowledge has never yet resulted in any icing accident, i.e. flying a
certified TKS known-ice piston airplane under either known or forecast light
or moderate icing conditions with tops at or below 15,000 feet.

Why is what I am doing unwise?


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Richard Kaplan, CFII

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