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Originally Posted by SoCalAprch  They always will give you just what you need to get in. In CVG a couple weeks ago they even asked someone what they needed to get in, a couple seconds went by a viola, new atis and the guy continued and landed 
One thing I learned on IOE is that if you are asked about something there are not too many times where anything is severe. Never call severe icing unless you think planes will start falling from the sky. Had some 172 driver call severe icing and had to sit on the ground and wait for a PSA plane to call it light to get the airmet changed. Took a two hour delay and once we got off only the computer knew there was Ice, no build up on the wipers or anything and the weather was deteriorating. And WTF was a 172 doing in severe icing? |
lol that's quite a predicament. While light aircraft aren't approved into areas of known icing, it's possible to inadvertently fly into an area of unknown icing. Here's what sucks...severe icing is defined as an accumulation of ice that ice protection systems fail to remove. Since a C-172 has no ice protection systems outside of windshield defog, pitot heat and carb heat, even light rime ice could be considered "severe icing".
At least that's my interpretation. Never really thought about that until now though.