Holy crap, you mean you've never done that type of flying before? You don't know what you're missing.
I remember taxiing out one December in Elkhart, Indiana, in a Cessna 402 with thin, patchy ice on the runways and taxiways. Sun had just set, temperature dropped just enough so that whatever slush and puddles had been liquid quickly refroze.
I was creeping along, had just pulled on the runway from the taxiway, tried to turn the airplane to line up with the runway centerline and nothing happened. Locked up the brakes, airplane's momentum kept me sliding towards the snow bank on the other side. Black ice sucks. Goosed the left motor, and the airplane started to turn to line up. Gave it more left throttle, airplane's nose was pointed 45 degrees to the right of the centerline now, but the bird was still slightly sliding left. Pushed both throttles up, got enough power in to stop the left slide, CAREFULLY pushed in alternating left and right throttle to correct back to the centerline. Eventually got rudder effectiveness, figured there was no way I was stopping so I pushed it up and hauled a$$ out of there.
Another time I was inbound to South Bend, Indiana, and was in moderate icing the whole way no matter what altitude I climbed/descended to. When the Great Lakes don't freeze over, those suckers are mega-snow/ice machines. I was flying the C402 B model, so friggin' gargoyles were growing off the tip tanks, and as fast as I could blow the boots, 1/2" to 3/4" of ice would reappear. It's 0400, tower's closed, and as center is vectoring me to the localizer I listen to the ASOS and it's 1/4 FZFG BLSN VV001. I'm thinking about going somewhere else, but I'm starting to realize the TAFs lied and it's like this just about everywhere. Additionally, I find that I have been having to add power just to maintain altitude, because all the unprotected surfaces are getting a really nice, heavy layer of ice on them. Pretty soon, I'm on the approach with props full, throttles almost all the way up, even though I'm descending on the glideslope. Pretty soon I've got the throttles all the way up, and the only way I can maintain speed is to descend a dot or so below the glide to keep the speed, then level slightly to let the glidepath come back to me, and repeat. During one of the level portions of doing this, the airplane slowed to about 130 knots and started bucking, almost like it was stalling. I shoved the yoke forward, and it got worse; when I eased off, the shaking stopped. I made a concious decision to not use the flaps, since they were P.O.S. split ones anyhow, and also since I didn't know what the heck was going on aerodynamically with the bird. I opted to leave the landing lights off to minimize the 'Star Wars' effect and maximize my opportunity to see the approach lights. As I came down to mins, I see the glow of the approach lights, which is good, since I don't have the power or energy to go missed anyway. The approach lights never become more than a fuzzy outline, and it is snowing pretty good. I pick up the threshold, and then ONE set of runway lights. The snow removal crews haven't been out for a while, so the runway has several inches of snow on it, there's blowing snow, some fog for extra pucker factor - everything is white, though at this time of the morning it was more along the lines of shades of gray...imagine the depth perception problem! I figure minimal flare is required, and somehow I arrive, though I think the Almighty was doing the flying. When the airplane smacked the runway, it was as if I had been caught in a barrier because of the effect the snow had on deceleration. It took me over 30 minutes to taxi to the FBO, which was only 300 yards from the first taxiway I could find. When I gathered myself up, hopped out of the airplane, and checked it over, I found out that the horizontal stab boots hadn't been working at all and what I'd experienced on final was a tailplane stall. This was well before NASA did their studies on it, and I hadn't heard of it before then.
RJ, if you haven't done freight flying, don't attempt to critique that video. You know not of what you speak.
