A question regarding the upcoming weather and the F18

[hotrod525]

So, here a noobish question, can you drawn you're engines if you pass trought thick clouds ? I know that aircraft engine can digest "alot" of water, but is there a certain limit and if so, would it be represented on the F18 ?

[Scaley]

A limit - yes.  A limit that you'll reach with cloud vapour or rain - no.  The time it matters is standing water on runways, but I very much doubt we'll get that modelled.

[TimRobertsen]

They can drink a lot of water!  

As you probably know, water was (and still is) used as a performance-enhancing drug for jet engines:p

Just google "jet engine water injection".

I believe the B-52 sometimes uses this for short take-offs; and the harrier has a similar system.

[Skysurfer]

Yeah, not a thing. Unless it's some insane precip. If anything I'd be curious how they model airframe icing down the road and whether you can pick up precipitation with your radar (A2G mode).

Edited February 8, 2021 by Skysurfer

[LTRMcrew]

Even for commercial airliners they need to be in some seriously heavy precip to flame out, like extreme super duper rare heavy precip, it happens that infrequently.

 

Airframe icing would be an interesting addition similar to the warning we get for inlet ice. Does hornet even have deicing? Or is it not necessary due to it's thrust to weight and can out power it and clear the area? Although you'd still have the ice on the wings even after departing the icing zone.

[Skysurfer]

40 minutes ago, LTRMcrew said:

Even for commercial airliners they need to be in some seriously heavy precip to flame out, like extreme super duper rare heavy precip, it happens that infrequently.

 

Airframe icing would be an interesting addition similar to the warning we get for inlet ice. Does hornet even have deicing? Or is it not necessary due to it's thrust to weight and can out power it and clear the area? Although you'd still have the ice on the wings even after departing the icing zone.

 

Most likely just inlet and probes. Anything else you'll just increase speed.

[HILOK]

11 hours ago, Skysurfer said:

 

[...] Anything else you'll just increase speed.

that's what i heard too. btw, has anyone found a TAT indication somewhere in the cockpit?

[Skysurfer]

9 hours ago, HILOK said:

that's what i heard too. btw, has anyone found a TAT indication somewhere in the cockpit?

 

Could be on some DDI page but there is no physical gauge for it.

[Swift.]

On 2/8/2021 at 1:54 PM, Skysurfer said:

Yeah, not a thing. Unless it's some insane precip. If anything I'd be curious how they model airframe icing down the road and whether you can pick up precipitation with your radar (A2G mode).

 

This is something I'm very curious about too. I do hope the the new weather engine will affect ground radar performance.