"Matthew S. Whiting" wrote in message ...


If the forecast icing isn't all the way to the ground, why isn't it
legal to file and fly below the clouds and the altitudes with forecast
or known icing?

Don't ask me, I didn't write the regulation. Presumably because they have not
put in procedures into the IFR rules to handle, IFR but remain clear of IMC.
They presume that if you are operating IFR you are prepared to enter IMC at any
time.