On 2007-12-02 14:49:26 -0800, said:

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. What does FedEx do with their Caravans
when the weather is less than CAVU? Ground them?

It takes more than boots and hot props to get certification for known
ice. Pilots have lost their certificates for assuming that a plane that
had boots was certified for known ice.



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