megan,
Please explain what your take is on the requirements for VMC flight, as posted by yourself way back:
regs in force at the time state 8Km vis, 1 mile horizontally & 1,000 feet vertically.
It has been established beyond doubt that for these ice flights the vis has been amended to read 20km.
How is it possible to be 1,000ft vertically from cloud when after descending to 2,000ft you have to go down to 1,500ft to see further in?.
A minor point granted but after all the other minor points being discussed, perhaps an opinion on what was legal and what was not is in order.