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Old 1st Jan 2012, 18:35
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007helicopter
 
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Safety regarding Icing outside of forcast areas?

Very relevant and specific to the recent NYC incident

Ice is definately not Nice

What do you guys use as the best forcast of icing levels?

I very rarely have flown in icing conditions, occasionally in FIKI aircraft and once or twice light icing unintentionally but there were plenty of outs.

I tend to get an icing forcast from the USAF via Orbifly MET'MAP - ORBIFLY FLIGHT SCHOOL - IFR ET CPL AMERICAIN EN EUROPE - FAA IFR AND CPL IN EUROPE

I wanted to know from the more experinced guys how much you can rely on these as been accurate and what degree of safety regarding icing can you expect when outside or below the forcast levels?
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