PA-28 Cherokee/Archer/Dakota/Pillan/Warrior
Flight Crew Multiengine; Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Flight Instructor
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 40; Flight Crew Total 6040; Flight Crew Type 920
Troubleshooting; Workload; Human-Machine Interface
Aircraft Equipment Problem Critical; Deviation - Altitude Excursion From Assigned Altitude; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Clearance; Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence
Air Traffic Control Provided Assistance; Aircraft Equipment Problem Dissipated; Flight Crew Overcame Equipment Problem; Flight Crew Requested ATC Assistance / Clarification
Human Factors; Weather; Aircraft
IFR cross country coming up V1 at 5;000 feet. Started icing up. Lost some altitude. Requested 3;000 feet. [Local] approach gave me 4;000 ft. Ice melted. Northeast of ZZZ started icing up again lost altimeter; airspeed; vertical speed; comm 1; and all navigation equipment. Used a spare cockpit altimeter to restore the altitude. ATC let us go down to 3;000 feet. Direct to ZZZ1. Ice melted so altimeter; airspeed; and vertical speed restored. Still no comm 1 and no navaids. Used the comm 2 and my Foreflight pro to shoot an ILS into ZZZ1 where it was raining at the time.
PA-28 Single Pilot reported encountering inflight icing resulting in altitude loss as well as loss of Comm 1 and Nav 1. Reporter requested ATC routing assistance and completed effective trouble shooting to execute an uneventful landing at destination.