CogSim, the last line of your recognizing icing posting prompted an "Oh goodie!" from me - in a very sarcastic tone.
"Under some icing conditions, even a 3-minute exposure can substantially affect the handling of the aircraft."
Riiiiight - and who knows what the handling feels like when the computer has been flying? And then the computer, where all this handling data lived as bits and bytes, flips the pilot the bird and says he has the stick. No WONDER pilots get confused when things pickle. They don't have critical data and there may be no good way to transfer that critical data to the pilot in time.
If pilots are going to be expected to take over when things get tough they should be far more involved in the routine flight of the plane so they have this feel. That phrase proves this to me.
{o.o}