"Richard Kaplan" wrote in message
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"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message
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Hmm...in looking around, I'd say I've seen ZERO known-ice singles
around.

Do you mean you do not see that many for sale or you do not see them on
the
ramp?

For Sale..but as for "on the ramp", Is say I haven't taken that much notice
(not that I won't now that the suggestions been offered).


If the former, just look at Mooneys, 210/T210/P210s, Malibus, and
Commanders.
If the latter, do they fly practical cross-countries multiple times per
month?

Maybe for the winter months, but that's our slow season (custom home
building).

April is the most common month for icing accidents.

Yes, and that's the start of our work season in the more northern latitudes.


For that money I'd look at a known-ice turboprop.

Probably not a bad idea for someone with the mission profile you
describe...
either you will end up spending more money on charters or airplane
ownership
or you will decide your mission is not so critical and cancel some trips
or
you will drive or fly commercial on a good number of your trips.

Where we work, commercial flights are not really an option. When we go to a
site, there's at least two of us and sometimes three. We judiciously avoid
the larger metro areas where there's a lot of competition.

Except for flights restricted to the non-mountainous parts of the
Southwest
or the warm parts of the South, the odds of realistically completing
multiple monthly mission-critical cross-country business trips in a
non-deiced piston single are nil unless you are willing to accept regular
cancellations.

So far we've had just a few cancellations (and WE make the determination of
when to visit sites in progress, but clients make the determination for
first contacts, negotiations...), but you've given me some ammunition for
going to my partners for a second aircraft. The company I primarily work for
has a nice stable of aircraft, but they're ten times the size of our group.