David Megginson wrote in message . net.cable.rogers.com...
Robert M. Gary wrote:
If you fly IMC you WILL someday get ice. Its
just not realitic to say anything else unless you use your IFR ticket
for nothing other than bragging rights in the FBO.

The FAA's approach
to teaching icing is totally unreasonable and they need to go back to
teaching how to determine where ice may be and how to escape. This
modern idea of "if ice touches you, you will die right away" is not
helpful.

I agree very strongly....

Hear, hear.

Much more so than the "VFR not recommended" the "airmet for icing"
issued for much of the colder half of the year in the Northeast US is
largely discounted as paper-trail CYA-ing.

OTOH, I hear a lot of briefers in the winter say, "we've got the
airmet but there's no pireps and it doesn't look like it's going to
cause any trouble where you're headed." Sometimes seems there's an
unwritten law of sorts in effect here.

-cwk.