Tim writes:

I know the answer. My point is that a pilot should not get anywhere
near an IFR flight plan if he/she doesn't know the answer to that
question. I am not being melodramatic. It can get you killed. You
NEED to know that stuff.

So what is the answer?

The fact that the person did not even look it up and instead came to a
newsgroup for an answer is also a problem.

Where would he look it up?

Your assumption tht those who don't post the answer don't know the
answer is ridiculous.

It's actually very logical. People who have the answer are usually more than
willing to give it. Those who don't are usually eager to find a way to
distract attention from their failure to provide an answer. And, of course,
some people just make things up.

Spoon feeding pilots who are dangerous and ignorant is a sure way to
disaster.

So when I don't look something up, it's bad; and when I do look something up,
it's bad. Do you see a problem here?

In your little world of games, icing, lost comms, etc don't happen, and
when they do no one dies. In the real world pilots like these can kill
themselves and others. I don't want them flying around when I am up
there flying around.

Since you don't know what to do in this situation, I suppose yours would be
the first NTSB report.

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