Northern Skies Aviation

We are a 135 operator in MT who operates CE-340's (3) and a CE-414 year around in all types of weather. We currently fly two night cargo runs (one 3 times a week and one 5 times a week) to SLC, HLN and APA. We have experienced pilots who are taught how to deal with icing on a daily basis, but more importantly how to avoid it in the first place or get out of it if it is encountered. Twin cessna anti/de ice systems were never designed to stay in icing conditions, but rather get you out of them. Many inexperienced pilots don't know how to properly look at weather conditions to avoid icing, and don't know how to get out of it. Our pilots have thousands of hours flying in those conditions and have had no issues. I think the fact that there have been only 52 incidents in 30 yrs shows that it is more pilot judgement than the aircraft. In 30 years there were thousands of flights into icing conditions with those aircraft.