very interesting incident and I'm glad to hear that a safe landing was accomplished.
set standard is right...enough force on controls should disengage the autopilot
often times in situations like this, the perfection of translation can come into question.
haven't we learned that in icing situations one should hand fly? of course that pre supposes that one knows how to hand fly on instruments well...
I always hated the deicing procedure for the tail of the 737...what a pain!