Re: FAR 91.157 Operating in icing conditions

David Megginson wrote:
> Bob Gardner wrote:
>
> > We have an *authorized procedure* out here in the Pacific Northwest,
> > developed by the FSDO Aviation Safety Manager and the folks at the 
> > TRACON,
> > specifically for use when icing conditions are forecast. It is called 
> > "Radar
> > Vectors for Ice" and involves vectors to climb away from the Cascades 
> > until
> > high enough to be well above the freezing level or in the clear. 
> > Obviously,
> > since this procedure was developed by the FAA and published in the Safety
> > Program newsletter every year at this time, a forecast of icing 
> > conditions
> > is not, in and of itself, a bar to flight.
>
>
> Of course not -- airspace is three-dimensional.  I don't cancel a flight 
> planned for 4000 ft in the summer because there's icing forecast from 
> 15,000 to 20,000 ft.  I wonder if there is anyone in this group who is 
> seriously arguing that I should cancel such a flight.

Ron Natalie just said that.


Matt