I wouldn't, except this individual is not doing it exclusively in icing conditions. This individual has stretched that line you mentioned from the manual to cover all climbs at all altitudes, in all weather conditions. He/she is not doing it to comply with a technique (does it say "should", or "must", I don't recall) recommended to be used in icing conditions because a crew sometime in the past got themselves into trouble because they weren't paying attention, or were just poor airmen (the reason for at least half of what is written in the Flight Standards Manual). He/she is doing it as a standard operating procedure for all climbs, then telling their crewmembers that that is the way the book says the airplane should be climbed...all the time.

Even then I'd be hard pressed to make an issue of it...except I get tired of answering ATC's query "Comair XXX, what's your climb rate?"

If a crewmember has an issue with the way I operate the aircraft, they are welcome to voice that, and as long as safety is not compromised, I'll comply. On the other hand, when someone is spouting off b.s. as procedure, I'll pull out the manual and start looking for it...after all, I could well have missed a change somewhere. If I can't find the procedure in question, I'll ask the crewmember to help me find it.

If this particular individual refused to fly with me, I'd thank him/her profusely...and tell the Chief Pilot that I was obviously an idiot and I needed some time off from work as it was clear that I'm not competent. After nearly 6000 hours of RJ time at Comair, I've only on two or three occasions run across someone I considered calling Pro Standards about. This individual would have been the first, had he not told me inbound on the last leg of the trip "I like guys like you. You keep me straight."

This particular trip started with an issue to begin with. It's common courtesy, and required, to brief crewmembers when carrying a weapon as a FFDO. How this individual qualified for that level of responsibility is beyond my comprehension, but learning about it after I glanced over on the taxi out and noticed a weapon was not the ideal time for that conversation to take place.