Hello and good afternoon adventurous bush-pilots and captains acing the best study-level airliners,
I have bought Microsoft Store vouchers and while enjoying some YouTube videos to decide which airplane would be the best to buy, I found some interesting detail about the Carenado Seneca V.
What is this thing that looks like a HUD but is none on the Seneca windshield?
Wow I kinda thought about this but it´s a rather primitive solution to heat a windshield.
I need to read more about this aircraft on Wikipedia because these classic rear glass defrosting line technology is implemented in cars for several decades now and I wonder why the same is not in this aircraft front windshield.
It’s anti-ice/deice, which has a different meaning in aircraft than autos/cars. It takes a lot more heat to melt ice than it does to use the demister (incorrectly called a defroster in the US) to get rid of condensation inside your windshield. To see the effect, next time your car windshield is frosted/iced over from the outside, see how long it takes to melt it off with what’s called the “defroster” compared to an ice scraper. You do see truly heated windshields on larger aircraft for sure, but they’re expensive, where this solution is common for smaller aircraft that are certificated only for limited flight in ice.
Thanks for the explaination.
I would truly love to see this device in action but unfortunately there is no YouTube video showing the Seneca in icing conditions to see if it´s realistic and the ice only melting away around this device (while all other windows are completely freezing over in ice rain).
Awesome this plane is truly interesting!
And I hope it looks the same in the simulator!
But for some reason Asobo reduced the most awesome icing feature ever designed in any software until it became an almost invisible feature - now flying in winter adds just barely noticeable white rings on the propeller cone and a little bit of ice on the slats even when flying in clouds at minus -50°C.
A few months prior the whole plane was freezing over and that was absolutely awesome!
Maybe absolutely awesome for some, but absolutely unrealistic since ice accretion occured mainly in places where it only occurs if the aircraft is sitting static on the ground.
Btw. at -50°C there shouldn’t be any icing in the sim, because it doesn’t happen IRL either.
