later in early access Does ICE have an effect?

[speed-of-heat]

I noticed that in Caucus's IA missions the Anti-Icing was switched OFF, so i switched them on as it was reporting a lot of ice... i tried a few other missions and found the same ... then i tried the Marianas take off from runway, where i found that it also was reporting Ice  ... which seemed less likely? so with that in mind does ICE have an effect , or is it just flavour at the moment?

ice in marianas.trk

[Raptor9]

The Anti-Ice and Ice Detection systems will be developed later in Early Access. Any indication you see now is just a placeholder.

[speed-of-heat]

Roger that thanks

[FalcoGer]

I find it curious why they chose to cycle no indication, light, medium and heavy icing every few seconds instead of just displaying nothing until anti-ice is properly implemented. It just confuses people. Though it is funny how you get "Heavy" icing in Dubai at 40°C FAT.

[Swift.]

3 minutes ago, FalcoGer said:

I find it curious why they chose to cycle no indication, light, medium and heavy icing every few seconds instead of just displaying nothing until anti-ice is properly implemented. It just confuses people. Though it is funny how you get "Heavy" icing in Dubai at 40°C FAT.

I guess at least if it's cycling you can look at it and say 'yeah that's broken'. But if it was just static 'no ice' you might believe it.

[FalcoGer]

Perhaps another approach could be saying it isn't working when in fact it isn't implemented at the time. I think that would be more accurate, realistic and avoid some confusion (while admittedly causing different confusion). It also isn't wasted effort on the programmer's part as the "failed" messages could pop up when the equipment actually fails later when it is properly implemented instead of ripping out the old placeholder and putting something new in, the old system now being essentially useless, the work done to create it worthless.

Another example: Say IFF isn't implemented at the time. You get an IFF bit fail on startup, letting you know that it isn't working (which it isn't). Now IFF does gets implemented (we hope). But you can still use the code of non working IFF if you zero out your codes or if your IFF equipment gets shot up.

That said, not sure how that applies to ice detection and if there is any indication of anti ice equipment not working or if there is any test in the apache at all.

28 minutes ago, Swift. said:

I guess at least if it's cycling you can look at it and say 'yeah that's broken'. But if it was just static 'no ice' you might believe it.

For all intents and purposes, there is 'no ice'. So maybe it should just say that, even in the clouds at -20°C

[BIGNEWY]

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thanks