NAUNUAUB Posted Thursday at 10:09 AM Posted Thursday at 10:09 AM Morning all, I got a frozen pitot yesterday even though flying in clear sky and having Pitot Heat ON, so decided to investigate and reproduce it tounderstand why that bug happened on that particular flight. After quite extensive testing, I understand the module has a "severe icing" condition logic where in certain conditions, Pitot Heat will be overwhelmed and Pitot will freeze regardless of heating system being ON (Same for canopy loading Ice, but that does not bother me too much) ! This condition criteria is OAT between 0°C and -10°C (the closest to 0, the most severe) and precipitation being present. Cloud density/thickness and fog have no influence. Problem is it does not track if you are actualy flying in precipitation or cloud/fog whatsoever, the only criteria is "there is precipitation somewhere". So if you basically fly at 20000ft in clear sky with OAT -2°C, and there is down bealow a cloud layer toping at 3000ft generating rain, your Pitot freeze whatever you will do. Having such severe icing condition criteria might not be a bad idea, I don't know the real aircraft and maybe the Pitot heat system is weak. Problem is the way it is done in DCS makes it completely unrealistic right know as you just loose IAS when you should definitely not and with no way counteract it. I attach a track where reproduced. Happy landings ! Arnaud debug.trk
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