IFR in the Eastern Mountains

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True enough. All I was saying is that the chances of getting in trouble by
ignoring something like the MEA's vs. icing is a lot more likely than a single-engine
failure in a single... whether in low IMC over the mountains or not. Just flying over
mountains in IMC doesn't increase the chances of having an engine failure (it just
make you THINK about it more...

Not necessarily so when one is young, has accumulated a fair amount of
experience, and has a senese, "that won't happen to me."

I speak of myself flying a Beech Debonair in the Summer of 62 from
Nashville to DCA on the north side of a low (no TRWS, at least I
understood that ;-)

It was already night time and the ceilings/vis were mostly 500-2.

I still think, after the fact, about that engine crapping out. I was
fearless at the time.

We didn't have to worry about ice. It was July. ;-)