Some of the questions I read on this forum confirm my decision to keep the 421 untill the brain/body is no longer able to fly safely, to go in a turbojet aircraft at high level without both airframe and engine anti/de ice working is bloody insane, I have seen three inches of ice in under sixty seconds on a 727 airframe in clear air letting down on the West coast, supercooled droplets being pushed up hill by an onshore/upslope wind, no forecast of same and a large dew point/temp spread on the surface{Vancouver} and nothing visible to the naked eye. and I reapeat, nothing forecast. It might be SOP for some to build aircraft with faulty pitot systems, de ice systems which allow run back ice to form, but one doesnt have to load the dice any more by going when these systems are bust!
Last edited by clunckdriver; 14th Apr 2010 at 15:35.