I don´t see that antifreeze works
The icing effect in MSFS is (for the most part) vastly over done. However, for aircraft certified for known icing only the leading edges of wings, horizontal and vertical stabilizers (as well as engines) are going to have some sort of anti-or deicing system. For light twins, that is going to be pneumatic de-icing boots (or possibly “weeping wing”) and propeller heat. So one might expect to see ice build up around the engine cowling if the icing were significant. There are stories from the early days of commercial aviation where icing got severe enough to ice over the engine exhausts on DC-2 aircraft and the Captain would have to force backfire to keep them clear. In real life, in a light twin, you would want to be looking to get out of the ice. Even in a modern airliner there are rare cases of severe icing where the ice gets bad enough to affect the aircraft. BTW, if your deicing wasn’t working, you would be losing airspeed. If it got bad enough, you wouldn’t be able to fly. If you didn’t have pitot heat turned on, you would also lose your airspeed indicator. If you didn’t have prop heat turned, you would start seeing RPM fluctuations and start hearing a banging as the prop started flinging ice chunks against the fuselage.
There’s no antifreeze in airplanes. I think you’re thinking of GTA V
Actually, the fluid he is referring to (TKS) is pretty much the same as glycol based antifreeze. And definitely agree with the icing being way over done in the sim. Hopefully they can scale it back a bit.
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So its normal that I see ice on the engine, despite I put at Maximun DE ICE, as you can see on the picture I send.
Its possible anyway. The deicing system doesn’t affect the engine cowling.