Icing in FS9

[ScottishMike1]

After twenty years of using FS9 it can still surprise!

Today I was flying the Piper 23 Apache twin from Puerto Rico (TJFA) to Punta Cana (MDPC) in the Dominican Republic; at approx 8000’ when I entered clouds the aircraft iced up, I have often encountered icing in the form of a freezing pitot (the indicated airspeed gauge drops to 0 Kts) but this is the first time I have seen a visual representation:


after fumbling about in the panel I found the de-ice switch (the small switch to the right of the fuel gauges):



some 45 seconds after switching the de-ice on the aircraft lost the ice:


I suppose I should not have been too surprised as when the Apache is parked and engines are off it has an animation of a dog wagging it’s tail and chasing a red bird:


I could not find who the designer is. But whoever it is a big thank you from me as it is a very nice flying model. Although a nicer panel would not go amiss. JGF maybe?

 

[zswobbie1]

That's Bill & Lynn Lyons's Apache.. Also with a Float version.
cc7pa23f.zip
Their Piper PA22 Tripacer &Luscombe 8A Silvaire are also worth having.

 

[Sbob]

Yep, that's Golden Wings.

Every time I fly the Apache my heart skips a beat.
At some point I'll pan around the VC and there's this KID staring at me..

 

[scotty]

I didn't even know that the Piper Apache was already equipped with a full-body de-icing system in the 1950s.

 

[Miggers]

That's Bill & Lynn Lyons's Apache.. Also with a Float version.
cc7pa23f.zip
Their Piper PA22 Tripacer &Luscombe 8A Silvaire are also worth having.

I can confirm that 8A Silvaire is indeed a beauty. My Father built a Keil-Kraft free flight balsa model of one many years and that was it,I was hooked on Luscombes,Pipers and Austers.

 

[jgf]

There's a reason Lyons' aircraft are so well remembered; all are worth having.

FTR, if you want more realistic ice effects there is a gauge, IceV10, which provides a more realistic icing effect to flight dynamics.

"This gauge is provided as a way of making winter flying in the sim (FS9 or FSX) a little more realistic. It has been tested and works in both FSX and FS9.

Contrary to some popular belief, structural icing is simulated in both versions of the simulator. However, icing rarely appears in cloud layers generated by either the real-world download of the standard sim or from most add-ons such as Active Sky. When icing is placed in cloud layers, it is rarely more than "light" icing. The ice accumulation rate in both sims is so slow that only "severe" structural icing is liable to cause any noticable change in the aerodynamics of your aircraft, especially if you are flying a larger one.

This is good, generally, because many FS aircraft do not have working de-icing systems because aircraft panel designers haven't understood the parameters for enabling de-icing in their airplanes, and often their structural de-ice switches don't work. So, the wimpy ice simulation is offset by the ignorance about anti-icing, so all is well in the sim world."