I definitely don’t want that, I want a realistic experience not a sim with a slider for everything to adjust to your liking. I don’t know about the performance effect but the visual effects were far overdone in MSFS. I have thousands of hours myself in all kinds of turboprops (and a few jets) in the Baltics and high up in Scandinavia. Sure it happens sometimes that the windshield ices up in a matter of minutes or even seconds, but this is not an event happening every time upon entering icing conditions (and sometimes even outside of icing conditions in MSFS). That’s why I’m saying, the severity of severe icing is probably not overdone, the rate of encountering severe icing is (or was rather).
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I disagree. I have seen reports of icing overpowering the anti-ice on large jets. I have personally experienced severe icing (according to the definition you gave) in the DA-62 when passing through a very thin cloud. And by “thin” i mean see-through, out on the other side in 10-20s.
msfs isnt tailored to your individual tastes, if you want realism, set it to the proposed realistic setting for icing. while other players can use a setting suited to them. the point, is that having the choice is better for everyone, rather than nerfing the ■■■■ out something of because people complained about something they don’t understand.
You might not be referring to the on-ground icing, yet this is exactly the same sim and process that does this, I doubt the sim differentiates between ground and airborne effects in regard of icing. Then, as an example, I was flying with the Piper Arrow on 9500ft recently, flew through a cloud that was barely visible (took me about 2-3 seconds to get through the cloud) and got my full windshield ice covered in about 5 seconds. You consider this realistic? I mean, this happens all the time in the sim if conditions for icing are met, not just the 1 in 1000 times this could actually happen in RL…
I’m muting this topic, for every 10 people who say it’s a problem, one know-it-all comes along and undermines the entire topic, just not worth my time or worry any more. If it’s not fixed, they aren’t going to do anything else, and if it is fixed, yay!
I took the Caravan up through some clouds about Courchevel. I entered the clouds at around 10,000ft, temperature was -6C, and I cleared the clouds at around 15,000ft. I could still see out of the windows. That climb probably took 5 minutes.
As an aside, I think the Caravan anti-ice switch is reversed for airframe, and windshield.
The point is that the sim gave you 4. Severe 100% of the time even sitting on the ground. I just took a test flight with the new update in Alaska where the temp was around 0 to -5 and got moderate mixed but started with light. Also the iced formed on the leading edges, spinner and windshield. I have to say that I am impressed with this new update. I used Carenados Moony for the flight and when I turned on the defroster the windshield ice melted in small patches. When I descended out of the clouds and the temp went above 0 the ice started melting fast. The 10 heading bugs fixed and the real world weather was spot on. With PMDG and other quality aircraft coming soon I believe we now have our new flight simulator! Well done Asobo!
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