Doesn't sound like a very well planned IFR flight. Why fly into known ice in an aircraft thats not fitted with de-ice equipment......
Icing conditions were not known. It wasn't clear until we started picking up some ice. And as I said, we landed to clear it off.
I can assure you they will cancel a flight at Bartolini if icing conditions are known and present.
P.S. Just want to add that flying knowingly into known icing conditions is ludicrous. I would never do that even if my examiner would have insisted. But I can see that the way I worded it initially it seemed like we were two dead men walking (or flying). That's not the case.
Bartolini is a good school. The only incident I've heard about them was a PPL student landing onto a closed grass runway at an uncontrolled airfield and getting the plane stuck in the mud. Otherwise I think their safety culture is absolutely fine. IFR flights absolutely do get canceled in winter because of icing.