Ah, a mighty 182. That makes all the difference in the world. It's still a puny underpowered machine that shouldn't be in the ice. It's single engine. It's also not your risk to take. Nor your liberty to do so.
Is your 182 approved for flight into known ice? Ever had an engine or instrument failure in a 182 in ice? I have. You don't want that. And never assume you'll get only a light dusting.
I find it very disppointing that here we have at least two proponents of engaging in stupid behavior. Ridiculous.
I partially agree with you about icing training. I think that even in a c-172 you ought to fly in heavy ice. WAIT THOUGH before you call me crazy!!! While in heavy ice the freezing level ought to be at least 5000ft. That was you can see how a poor 172 performs as a popsicle but at the same time you have a guarenteed out by simply descenting into warm air and melting it off.
Think about that statement carefully before you do the right thing and retract it. I won't wait before I call you crazy; it's illegal and very, very stupid. You'd go ice up a 172 on the belief that you have altitude to exit the cloud when you're done...that somehow makes it okay?
You've got lots of solid icing experience in type and can predict the behavior and conditions, and be sure you can shed it? Lots of pilots with far more experience in far more capable aircraft have been killed in ice. Somehow you think you've got a brilliant idea that will revoloutionize the industry now, icing up that 172 to let people know what it's like?
In a simulator perhaps...but much rather I'd see people trained to stay out of the ice completely. Putting that 172, or any aircraft not equipped nor approved for ice, into ice, is plain stupid.
If I stayed on the ground every time I read a sigmet, I would never get anywhere.
Then you need to seriously consider not going anywhere. Sigmets are issued for severe icing and severe to extreme turbulence when not associated with thunderstorms. Think hard about that. Chew on it for a while.
You'll just blow off the sigmet because in your grand experience you know better, and you're going to make the point with your single engine cessna, because it's your risk to take, right? Hopefull not while over my home. Or that of anybody else, as it's not our risk to take. Or that of anyone else in the sky, or on the ground. Sigmets are not issued for kicks, and should not be passed off lightly, regardless of weather you have a plan "b" or not.
A good way to see what your plane can handle is find a thin icing layer up high and dive in it and watch what happens. The scarey part is listening to the chucks shedding of in the decent slamming into the horizontal stab!
I really thought you had better judgement than that.
Good grief.
