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Dylan Smith wrote:

On 2005-12-30, Dylan Smith wrote:
I'm not entirely sure where these events took place, but even with our
mild climate here, I wouldn't launch in day IMC here in a light plane
because the freezing level is often below 2000 feet

... scratch that, I've just read the quoted NTSB report and the
temperature was far too high for icing. Given a Bonanza with decent
instrumentation and an IFR flight plan, I'd have probably gone too.


Of course, the problem here is that a VFR pilot, who didn't even have
the ink dry on his PP Certificate, launched at night, in lousy
conditions, into mountainous terrain.

Darwin, anyone?

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