Flight Into Known Icing

[C650CPT]

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There are times you can fly into 'known' icing if you have a really good excuse. be damn careful about what you decide to do, because you could get really screwed if you chose the wrong option.

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Whoa
I gotta throw a flag on this play. Listen to what you are saying ... You can knowingly break a regulation IF you have a really good excuse. Oh really?
The regulations are there to protect us from ourselves and you demonstate why. It sounds to me like you need to review the regualtions and the Aeronautical infromation Manual. The only way to "break" a regulation is by declaring and Emergency, and then it is only to the extent necessary to deal with that emergency. Continueing a flight around turbulence into known icing without the proper equipment and with a current pirep for severe icing is stupid at best, I have to serioulsy question your judgment as a pilot. You were lucky not because the inspector "let" you go, you were lucky because you didn't kill yourself. Forget about getting screwed worry about getting dead.
By the way wecome to Jet Careers, You're gonna love it hear.

Jim

 

[jonnyb]

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By the way wecome to Jet Careers, You're gonna love it hear.

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[Eric_Wilson]

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There are times you can fly into 'known' icing if you have a really good excuse. be damn careful about what you decide to do, because you could get really screwed if you chose the wrong option.

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What I mean is that sometimes you have no other options. I couldn't have turned around, since all the airports behind us were below ILS mins, and the first report of icing was the pirep from the plane right ahead of us. We were surrounded by terrain, so there was no way to divert. Therefore, the only option we had was to climb. Questioning my decision making as a pilot isn't really fair since you weren't in the situation. I'd say that, since the FISDO inspector who ramp checked me said I made the best decision possible, I made a pretty good decision in a really bad situation. We had a current weather report when we took off, and were getting regular updates from flight watch. Had either of those reported a change in the conditions with enough time for me to divert all the way back to Phoenix, I would have, so there you go. By the way, I realize how close I came to going down, especially considering that the airplane behind us stalled on the climb to 12000 because of the icing and had to do a no-gyro approach into Yuma becuase the mins were too low all the way back to Tuscon