Flying_Monkey
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Kind of a broad topic here but I would like to learn more. Since getting my instrument rating I've tried to read up on the subject but haven't had a lot of real world experience. Tonight I delayed my flight back home because of possible icing conditions (mostly because part of the flight would be at night and I would likely want to be ifr...and the MEA was higher than the freezing level and just above predicted cloud bases. I was just curious about everyone's decision making process. Is it a hard and fast no go if there is any overlap on freezing level and forecast ceilings? Which weather products do you use the most? Foreflight has some good ones (icing probability, icing severity, lowest freezing level, airmets). Do you take the cloud type and Pireps into account? I want to fly conservatively safe and know the aircraft is not certified for flight into known icing. What exactly is KNOWN icing- Pireps? Forecast?
