FBW A32NX - Cannot De Ice Cockpit Windows

[RJC68 823]

Hi All,

Normally I fly European routes but today I decided to fly in Canada, my home country. Sitting at the gate at CYEG preparing for my flight with live weather the windshield completely froze up, all the icing settings in MSFS are turned off. Even with the engines running and anti ice turned on it would not clear on the ground. I had to turn live weather off and manually set the temp to get rid of it so I could see out of the cockpit window to taxi.

Does anyone know how to stop this happening with live weather? The TAT was only -4. I don't know if I am missing something completely obvious. I turned all the anti ice incl probe/window heat on & off but it made no difference whatsoever.

[Zimmerbz 168]

39 minutes ago, RJC68 said:

Hi All,

Normally I fly European routes but today I decided to fly in Canada, my home country. Sitting at the gate at CYEG preparing for my flight with live weather the windshield completely froze up, all the icing settings in MSFS are turned off. Even with the engines running and anti ice turned on it would not clear on the ground. I had to turn live weather off and manually set the temp to get rid of it so I could see out of the cockpit window to taxi.

Does anyone know how to stop this happening with live weather? The TAT was only -4. I don't know if I am missing something completely obvious. I turned all the anti ice incl probe/window heat on & off but it made no difference whatsoever.

Not sure if this is the correct answer procedure wise, but it happened to me once and I just turned the heat in the cockpit up and that did the trick.

[Silicus 879]

In developer mode, with the developer menu showing you can dial down the icing. Forgot exactly which menu, but it is there with a blueish bar..... (sorry not at my sim at the moment).

[JimBrown 596]

1 hour ago, RJC68 said:

Does anyone know how to stop this happening with live weather? The TAT was only -4. I don't know if I am missing something completely obvious. I turned all the anti ice incl probe/window heat on & off but it made no difference whatsoever.

I also have icing turned off in the settings, but the cockpit windows still like to ice over if the OAT is below zero C.

From what I've seen, at least the APU needs to be running (and I think bleed turned on) and Probe/Window heat turned on in order to clear the cockpit windows. Ground power does not appear to be enough (but I could be wrong).

Keep in mind though, that it will take several minutes for the windows to clear up. So if the windows are iced up, I'll power up the plane with ground power, then immediately start the APU. Then carry on with the usual preparations.

...jim

 

[RJC68 823]

3 hours ago, JimBrown said:

I also have icing turned off in the settings, but the cockpit windows still like to ice over if the OAT is below zero C.

From what I've seen, at least the APU needs to be running (and I think bleed turned on) and Probe/Window heat turned on in order to clear the cockpit windows. Ground power does not appear to be enough (but I could be wrong).

Keep in mind though, that it will take several minutes for the windows to clear up. So if the windows are iced up, I'll power up the plane with ground power, then immediately start the APU. Then carry on with the usual preparations.

...jim

 

Thanks Jim,

I will give that a go. I figured with the engines running the ice would clear but it didn't 

[RJC68 823]

3 hours ago, Silicus said:

In developer mode, with the developer menu showing you can dial down the icing. Forgot exactly which menu, but it is there with a blueish bar..... (sorry not at my sim at the moment).

Thanks I will take a look

[Fog Bound 2]

Turn on Probe/Window heat to clear the ice

[RJC68 823]

20 minutes ago, Fog Bound said:

Turn on Probe/Window heat to clear the ice

I did try that but it didn't work,

Just trying some of the options above

[RJC68 823]

20 hours ago, Silicus said:

In developer mode, with the developer menu showing you can dial down the icing. Forgot exactly which menu, but it is there with a blueish bar..... (sorry not at my sim at the moment).

I found this option in the developer menu and set it too zero and reloaded at Yellowknife and sat on the ramp and no icing appeared. 
Thanks for the help