On 28 Jan 2004 06:46:28 -0800, (Andrew
Sarangan) wrote:


Unless your plane is certified for known icing then airmet or not any
icing potential means you can't legally fly. Arguing over moderate
versus light is academic since either is prohibitive..

But what if the airplane were certified for known ice? Would it not matter then?

Many people claim that the only function of certified deice equipment
in a small GA aircraft is to give you time to get out of that
condition. If you look at the definition of light and moderate icing,
a certified system should be able to handle them. It is also my
understanding that the level of icing encountered is more complicated
than a linear relationship to temperature so that temperatures near
freezing don't necessarily imply less accumulation than lower
temperatures.