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M20R pilot reported entering icing conditions without anti-deicing equipment.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1584211 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201810 |
| Local Time Of Day | 0601-1200 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | IMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | M-20 R Ovation |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Flight Phase | Cruise |
| Route In Use | Direct |
| Flight Plan | IFR |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Pilot Flying Single Pilot |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Private |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 50 Flight Crew Total 700 Flight Crew Type 200 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Aircraft Equipment Problem Less Severe Deviation - Procedural FAR Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence |
Narrative:
I encountered icing conditions in my mooney; which was not fiki (flight into known icing) equipped. I had obtained a weather briefing via flightplan.com and knew of an icing airmet. I believed that I would be able to stay below the cloud layer until clear of clouds and then climb in VMC to an altitude where the temperatures were cold enough that icing would not occur. The clouds were lower and more pervasive than I realized from my weather briefing and I found myself picking up trace ice at around 10;000 MSL. I informed ATC and with their assistance determined that a climb to 16;000 MSL would likely get me out of icing conditions. I immediately began a climb and was soon in temperatures well below freezing and out of the icing conditions.I think my flight into icing was caused by my misinterpreting the satellite weather depiction as being the only places where there were clouds or clouds with moisture significant enough to cause icing. That is clearly not the case.I fault myself for misinterpreting the weather briefing and for not making a no-go decision solely on the basis of the icing airmet. That would have been the prudent thing to do.I credit myself for immediately informing ATC and seeking their assistance to plan an escape from the icing conditions.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: M20R pilot reported entering icing conditions without anti-deicing equipment.
Narrative: I encountered icing conditions in my Mooney; which was not FIKI (Flight Into Known Icing) equipped. I had obtained a weather briefing via flightplan.com and knew of an icing airmet. I believed that I would be able to stay below the cloud layer until clear of clouds and then climb in VMC to an altitude where the temperatures were cold enough that icing would not occur. The clouds were lower and more pervasive than I realized from my weather briefing and I found myself picking up trace ice at around 10;000 MSL. I informed ATC and with their assistance determined that a climb to 16;000 MSL would likely get me out of icing conditions. I immediately began a climb and was soon in temperatures well below freezing and out of the icing conditions.I think my flight into icing was caused by my misinterpreting the satellite weather depiction as being the only places where there were clouds or clouds with moisture significant enough to cause icing. That is clearly not the case.I fault myself for misinterpreting the weather briefing and for not making a no-go decision solely on the basis of the icing airmet. That would have been the prudent thing to do.I credit myself for immediately informing ATC and seeking their assistance to plan an escape from the icing conditions.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.