On Tue, 4 Dec 2007 14:35:48 +0000 (UTC), Dylan Smith
wrote:

On 2007-12-02, wrote:
On Dec 2, 2:30 pm, "Blueskies" wrote:

The airplane is NOT approved for flight into *known* icing conditions. So when a pilot finds himself in those conditions
in one of these planes, Cessna is to blame if he/she screws up and crashes...

So, why do so many of them have boots and hot props and all
the rest? It would seem to add a lot of expensive weight if flight
through known ice is forbidden.

It's there to give you more time to escape icing conditions, not so you
can simply fly in known icing conditions.

So all the information on flight into known icing and the related
procedures and required equipment, as documented in the POH and TCDS,
which do not contain language to the effect that "Must use this
equipment to run away as soon as any ice shows up", is wrong?

We're not talking about a SR22 with weeping wing here (I don't think
any of them are known-ice certified, but some do have inadvertant
encounter escape systems, and language to the effect of "Must use this
equipment to run away as soon as any ice shows up.")