Icing
Everyone on this post (and on any other post that mentions it) seems to say that you need to really avoid ice because it is "nasty stuff". Clearly it is better to stay out of ice if you can but I wonder if we should actually be getting people to experience some icing during training so they don't panic. VFR pilots are taught how to at least turn out of cloud if they go IMC inadvertantly and get to experience it so why not the same with icing?
The other aspect about icing is that, like everything else in flying, there are set things you can do. For example, you might turn on the alternate air if you have one and alternate static. You might also want to think about whether you should be climbing on top, descending, or turning round. Climbing on top is often the safest answer but then you have to get back down. Just how many people have been in an iced aircraft and then experienced how long it takes for the windscreen to clear when below the icing layer. How much faster do you have to land if the wings are iced up? What about tailplane stall?
I have been in light icing a number of times without any problem but one time I had rain ice and it was such a shock and so bad that I didn't do things properly. The only way we can ansure that we do things properly when it really counts it to experience it and train for it.