Re: Naturally Aspirated GA Airplanes -- High or Low?
Posted: 26 Dec 2018, 15:13
Based on books I've read by real pilots, I don't think freezing rain is overdone. Ten minutes sounds about right from various descriptions and it varies in the sim. I think there are 5 levels of freezing conditions.
I mean, someone talking about flying a DC-2/DC-3 and the ice building up on the air intakes far enough that the back of the prop was shaving it. Anti-ice boots that may or may not work, and sometimes making things worse. The inability to climb at all so you couldn't get above the ice. A race to climb through freezing rain far enough to get on top before you can't climb any more.
Ice in FSX is no joke for those who have experienced it and it is just like real life descriptions. And some people think icing isn't even modeled.
I don't know if we're getting ice simply from humidity, but on my last flight I was flying near a cloud layer but not in it and was getting ice. I didn't see any actual clouds of any kind where I was.
Part of why this is on my mind currently is because I'm flying in icing conditions a lot and I finally was able to make a gauge that I've been wanting for years: an outside air temperature gauge with an ice indicator, which I am currently testing. I already had an ice indicator in another gauge but it wasn't quite as convenient. So I might fly though ice more than I normally would.
Hook
I mean, someone talking about flying a DC-2/DC-3 and the ice building up on the air intakes far enough that the back of the prop was shaving it. Anti-ice boots that may or may not work, and sometimes making things worse. The inability to climb at all so you couldn't get above the ice. A race to climb through freezing rain far enough to get on top before you can't climb any more.
Ice in FSX is no joke for those who have experienced it and it is just like real life descriptions. And some people think icing isn't even modeled.
I don't know if we're getting ice simply from humidity, but on my last flight I was flying near a cloud layer but not in it and was getting ice. I didn't see any actual clouds of any kind where I was.
Part of why this is on my mind currently is because I'm flying in icing conditions a lot and I finally was able to make a gauge that I've been wanting for years: an outside air temperature gauge with an ice indicator, which I am currently testing. I already had an ice indicator in another gauge but it wasn't quite as convenient. So I might fly though ice more than I normally would.
Hook