Bob Gardner wrote:
All of the cases I have in my files are certificate actions based on
accidents...some fatal, some not.

When Tony Broderick was Assistant Administrator for Certification and
Regulation, I asked him specifically about any action based on a pilot
report of an icing encounter in a non-known-ice airplane. He said that if
the pilot took action to escape the icing conditions it would be a
non-event, but if the pilot remained in the icing conditions and an
accident/incident resulted, he would be subject to certificate action.

Then I asked the controller's union VP for safety about how controllers
react to reports of icing encounters from pilots of non-KI airplanes. He
said that controllers have no interest in the certification status of
airplane or pilot, and have no paperwork mechanism available anyway.

I'm going to miss the controller's union meeting in Dallas the end of this
month, so I won't be able to bang any ears.

Bob Gardner



Unless the FAA is handing out tickets to pilots who fly in icing
conditions, all this discussion about certificate action simply
academic.

If the icing is light, then no one will find out, or even care. If the
icing is severe, and he lives to face FAA actions, then he is one lucky
soul.