As I understand it the pitot heat on the PC-24 is automatic (in the sim anyway). I have been flying the PC-24 for about a week now and haven’t had any issues with icing besides a bit of cosmetic white splatter on the nose or a bit of distortion on the windscreen… Until yesterday.
I was flying through cloud, level and with 230kts being held on the AT and a bit of ice accumulating on the airframe. I noticed it seemed a bit quiet and I was starting to pitch up, but I was maintaining 230kts with idle thrust. Hmm. I figured the pitot was frozen, disconnected the AT and gave it some thrust. IAS remained frozen on 230, so I used the TAS readout on the Honeywell to gauge my approximate IAS while I decelerated and configured for landing. Flying the pattern was interesting, stall warner going ballistic and I kept getting dinged for exceeding flap & gear speed - which are clearly based on IAS, rather than actual AS - but I got it on the ground and stopped (still doing 230kts, apparently ). Oh and just to add insult to injury, while turning to final I had a flap malfunction and they started randomly retracting and extending. Marvellous!
Anyway, long story short, I could not find any de-icing controls to try and address these challenges in the air. Closest I found was windscreen heat, but even setting this to high, it made no difference, and regardless, forward vision was not an issue, it was the ice on the pitot and leading edges I most needed to clear!
Am I missing something? Or is this just another bug/missing feature?
The pressuirsation (as far as career mission penalties/failure goes) is only a problem with the PC12, I use the PC24 at FL400+ all the time and never had an problem with that.
I’ve never had this issue till now think because of the conditions where i’am currentley flying in. I always had the idea that the auto deicing like in real life wasn’ t working as supposed and got that confirmation today when on ils approach and got an overspeed warning while the spedometer next to the heading was indicating 132kts i firstly didn’t know what happened because i was on auto throttle. But when looking to the true airspeed and groundspeed i found out that i was doing over 230kts that while i just established on ils loc and glide slope. Then i paused and started to look on the internet and came on this forum seeing youre message. With the icps (icing protection system) knob on auto it startet me to think about this issue, the windscreen sytem was set by me on high/auto because of the conditions. That made me think that the icps on auto was not working then i tried something else setting it to the most right position (all on) and immediatly saw engine anti ice on on the display where allso the fuel quantity is displayed, in about a couple of seconds the speed indicator next to the horizon startet moving, an indication that the ice accumylated on the pito tube was molten away, it allso reacted on throttle inputs further confirming this.
I’ll hope you can play like this till the auto icps is working like it should be, this because its a very nice plane to fly with.
). Oh and just to add insult to injury, while turning to final I had a flap malfunction and they started randomly retracting and extending. Marvellous!