I flew the a320 and Boeing 787 today long haul flights. Both times I put the engine and wing de-icer on both flights before takeoff and when going through the clouds the planes would ice up immediately. This causes the plane to have a high angle of attack and it’s hard to climb.
Is there anyway around this? As oppose to putting de-icing on before flight? It seems to me a reoccurring issue through all my flights.
Is anyone having this issue or any way to turn this off or options to prevent it?
It’s a known issue, and has been for quite a while now. Whether or not devs are aware of it is another question entirely. I hope it gets fixed ASAP- at least having the option to turn off the visuals would be nice.
For now, the only workaround that I know of is to go into the developer menu and keep moving the visual icing slider to zero. It doesn’t stay there however, so we have to do it over and over and over again.
The Anti-Icing only works on the leading edges since icing should only build on the leading edges anyway. So if you look at the leading edges on the wing with the anti-icing on, you should see no icing anymore. But the rest of the aircraft, while it shouldn’t build ice at all in the first place, doesn’t have anti-icing system for them. So in the sim, the’re still visually seen with icing.
It doesn’t affect the flight dynamics though, as long as you already have it on.
Yes I know it’s cold in the UK at the moment, but on approach to land at Inverness with all the heating systems on. My G36 should not under any circumstances, freeze up in under 30 seconds and then plummet to the Earth while on approach via ILS. A complete waste of flght time!
I have mapped the three deicing functions (windshield, prop and structure) to keys and have even modified the cfg files (where possible) and it sure feels like the icing effect on the flight model is ON all the time regardless of the settings in the sim (visual only, etc.) I mostly fly the C172, Baron and Bonanza and of the three the only one that seems to have effective deicing in the flight model is the Baron. Several times I’ve fallen out of the sky in the C172 and Bonanza even after activating those three functions, seeing my windshield clear up, etc. (yes, I know I shouldn’t be flying up in those conditions IRL, but this is not RL 
wait the aircraft systems get iced up and falls out of the sky even on visual only setting?
yep, I’ve had it set to ‘visual only’, activated those functions and the C172 and Bonanza still lose lift
They touched on icing in the last developer Q&A, and hopefully we’ll get a toggle that can turn off visual icing. I can’t stand it- it’s completely unrealistic as it stands now. No jet in the world gets icing like that during flight, and a lot of speedy props don’t either.
I competed a flight in the Boeing 787-10 Dreamliner from Atlanta to Washington Dulles yesterday in winter storm conditions. I set wing and engine anti-ice to “On “. No problem climbing out of Atlanta or enroute on top of the cloud layers. Decent into Dulles I entered the clouds IMC around FL220. Stayed in IMC on the arrival and RNAV approach to minimums. Using auto-throttle and autopilot I noticed my airspeed degrading below the set point prior to the FAF. The auto-throttle was not responding so I immediately disconnected auto-throttle and manually added a lot of power to reverse the downward airspeed trend. The autopilot approach mode followed the glide path dutifully and I adjusted power to maintain approach airspeeds. At about 500 feet with full flaps I needed about 90% N1 power to maintain Vref. WTDH!!! After touchdown and rollout I took a look outside and see a load of ice on leading edges of wings, tail, and engine cowlings. Any airliner worth its salt can de-ice enough to stay out of trouble on an arrival. I know these default aircraft aren’t study level but icing effects are over exaggerated and out of control. Thankful I didn’t destroy the aircraft and kill my passengers 
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Just to keep the thread alive. I flew from Amsterdam to Moscow with the 747-8 today. Anti-icing on from the gate, as a habit, since I know what’s about to happen. On departure the plane made it to 7000 ft, stalled and aimed for the dutch soil at 400 kts. Developer mode saves the day. On approach, as soon as I got into clouds, ice began to build up at around 500 lbs per second - just watched the gross wt. skyrocket. Developer mode saves the day again. This is not about ugly visual icing, this is about anti-ice with little to no effect. This is not about turning off visual icing, this is about turning on effective anti-ice.
Anti-Ice only works on the leading edges of the aircraft. If you have it on, you shouldn’t see any icing at the front edges of the wings and engines. There’s no anti-icing at the rest of the aircraft as it is in real life.
So the issue here isn’t on the icing itself or how the anti-icing doesn’t work. It does work, and it works as it does in real life.
The issue here is where the Icing is building up on places that never builds up in real life. Which is on the fuselage, or on the top and bottom side of the wings. They shouldn’t be. But I don’t think they affect the aircraft performance. At least, not to my observation. I set my Icing to be true. Not just visual only.
Wow… I know a 747 has a lot of area to build up ice on, but that’s just ridiculous.
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