Originally Posted by
Pontius Pilot
I understand your point completely and respect it.
I am never complacent with ice - it doesn't matter what airplane I'm flying. The truth of the matter is I don't like ice very much and I learned that lesson the hard way many years ago in a C-172. I don't enjoy fecal sandwiches.
Thank you for a well put post.
Just looking out for you brother.
BTW, no my initials aren't R.M.........but I believe I know who you're talking about. If correct, he was a junior F/O at the time of Roselawn (DFW based) and many referred to him as "skippy" because he looked so young (and was), but he is a nice guy. I already had several thousand hours in the aircraft when he was learning it the year prior as a new hire (most junior in his ATR class). I flew with him several times.
There were no ATR's "above" 4184 at LUCIT at that time. Several were on the OXI arrival but not holding at the worst part of the ice downwind of Lake Michigan. Several layers of winds aloft were out of the northeast bringing a lot of moisture along the south shore of the lake that's an ice factory with the right temps and to those that tout icing, the upper Great Lakes can hold the title of "worst" with anywhere.