One thing to note is real world incidents caused by icing can be hard to pinpoint as the ice usually melts well before investigators arrive on the scene. This is particularly so if the incident involves loss of power due to carburettor icing and failure to apply carb heat in time as the amount of ice involved is minimal. 

LittleNavMap will report the 'icing state' of your aircraft in a % structural icing in the current aircraft information.  I'm not sure if it fully and correctly represents everything going on in MSFS, since some things may be different in the new sim vs the prior versions.

Landing the Bonanza Turbo with 100% structural icing last weekend, I observed what appeared to be an increase in stall speed.  I landed fast and with only approach flaps as a result. 7500 ft runway, so no problem to bleed off speed just before touchdown vs risking a stall at a higher altitude.. 

There is no working cockpit heat in the sim in the Bonanza, the interior temperature on the pedestal drops like a stone at altitude.  I doubt the thin jacket my simulated self is wearing is sufficient at 18F in the cockpit!

2 hours ago, marsman2020 said:

LittleNavMap will report the 'icing state' of your aircraft in a % structural icing in the current aircraft information.  I'm not sure if it fully and correctly represents everything going on in MSFS, since some things may be different in the new sim vs the prior versions.

Landing the Bonanza Turbo with 100% structural icing last weekend, I observed what appeared to be an increase in stall speed.  I landed fast and with only approach flaps as a result. 7500 ft runway, so no problem to bleed off speed just before touchdown vs risking a stall at a higher altitude.. 

There is no working cockpit heat in the sim in the Bonanza, the interior temperature on the pedestal drops like a stone at altitude.  I doubt the thin jacket my simulated self is wearing is sufficient at 18F in the cockpit!

Normally (apart from being dead from the induced stall/spin) you would (attempt to) land that zero flaps

3 hours ago, Ron Lefebvre said:

First, I would like to thank everyone. Very informative.

I was flying IFR by the way. Cloud coverage was complete above 6 000 feet up to and beyond 9 000 feet.

Could not look outside the plane as it was completely covered in ice. Plane flew well. I did notice my speed drop quite a bit, but there was a lot of wind.

It sounds like I was just in the right buffer zone for it to happen.

I just cant be sure if the sim was just giving me eye candy with the windshield frost or if the plane was really icing up.

Just not many cues from flying inside the sim.

Would be nice to think the sim was able to simulate icing.

 

Ron

 

 

 

 

Bear in mind even ice the thickness of sandpaper can reduce your lift by 60% (that is an actual FAA IFR test question)

A great training module from NASA - https://aircrafticing.grc.nasa.gov/index.html

I visited the icing research wind tunnel at NASA Glenn once, it was pretty cool ;)