Question about bleed air

[ShinyMikey]

I was always under the impression that any effects from the bleed air- air source selector switch weren't actually modeled (maybe my impression was incorrect). I always left the air source set to off (because I thought the effect wasn't modeled) just to make the cockpit quieter. I'm an every day Tomcat driver who has been doing this for a year and a half since the Tomcat was released and have never noticed any negative effects. Today on the 104th a human rio jumped in the backseat (I've never flown with a human rio before) and he said the radar was overheating because the bleed air wasn't turned on...so have I been wrong? Are the negative consequences of turning off the air source modeled after all? :doh:

[RustBelt]

Yes the heat exchangers for the AWG-9 liquid cooling uses the Conditioned bleed air, I think it's the only avionics that overheat, but yea, you need that bleed air open to run that puppy.

[r4y30n]

Alternatively, you could set it to ram if you really want but you may still run into overheating when getting low and slow in warm weather.

[eatthis]

ive never turned it on and my rio has never mentioned it

[ricktoberfest]

Alternatively, you could set it to ram if you really want but you may still run into overheating when getting low and slow in warm weather.

 

 

+1

 

 

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[QuiGon]

I'm flying the DCS Tomcat as a RIO only and I always complain if my pilot forgets to activate Bleed Air, because that's how it is done IRL. Unfortunately the DCS Tomcat, does not simulate the overheating effects from not enabling bleed air, so no, the radar does not overheat if you don't activate bleed air. I hope Heatblur will simulate that eventually in the future.

[sLYFa]

A lot of avionics should overheat and die without at least ram air cooling. Maybe HB will implent this some day