There is no doubt that forecast icing is known icing to the FAA and the
NTSB. This has been beat to death many times here and in every aviation
publication.

Mike
MU-2


"Matthew S. Whiting" wrote in message
...
C J Campbell wrote:
There was an earlier thread on whether it was legal to fly an airplane
under
part 91 into known icing if there was no specific prohibition against it
in
the airplane's operating handbook. I asked the Seattle FSDO what their
take
was on the issue. This is their reply:

I think the issue is one of what constitutes known icing. Is it from a
pirep, weather balloon, etc., that has actually seen/encountered the
icing or is a forecast from some weather guy on the ground who thinks
ice might occur sufficient to constitute known icing. Most pilots of
light aircraft know it is both dumb and illegal to fly into a location
where icing is REALLY know to exist. However, to me, a forecast isn't
"known", it is "possible", maybe even "likely", but hardly known.


Matt