You are missing my point, it’s not that icing won’t kill a 172, it’s that severe icing in ANY cloud below 0C is unrealistic, and needs to be fixed. I see the icing warnings, and avoid flying in any known moderate or severe icing, per the tech order. Or if I did encounter unexpected icing, I’d descend to a lower altitude immediately or find a place to land. But I flew through one translucent cloud for maybe 10 seconds, I could see through to the other side, over England, and my 172 completely iced over, and I had to give up the mission as a result. This is NOT how the real world works, I have 5,000 hours of RL flying time, though happily not a lot of it in arctic conditions.
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