I have just departed from my home airport CYYZ after installing the awesome FlyTampa scenery.

Sitting at the gate in the A32NX I immediately saw icing forming on the cockpit window, I am using live weather and it is a clear cold day here in Toronto. Even though I have all the icing turned off in the settings I still see this, I was getting this before SU8 and was able to control it by turning the icing slider down in the developers menu and hitting "save" 

Now with SU8 I can turn the icing slider down and the windows clear but even though I hit save ice just builds right back up again and I cannot see to taxi and no matter what I do with de-icing in the aircraft it will not clear. I am pretty sure this is an Asobo issue and not the excellent A32NX but it's super annoying as I have to keep lowering the icing slider in the developer menu until I get too the active runway.

Is anyone else seeing this and know of a way to not have icing showing  period?

Regards

Richard

 

Edited March 3, 20224 yr by RJC68

The A32NX may be doing its own thing independent of the in sim icing settings. What has worked for me in the past is to get the APU running ASAP and turn on Window/Probe heat on the overhead panel. Takes a couple of minutes, but the windscreen eventually clears up. Once the engines are running, one can still shut down the APU normally.

I have not had the opportunity to try this with SU8.

...jim

 

5 minutes ago, JimBrown said:

The A32NX may be doing its own thing independent of the in sim icing settings. What has worked for me in the past is to get the APU running ASAP and turn on Window/Probe heat on the overhead panel. Takes a couple of minutes, but the windscreen eventually clears up. Once the engines are running, one can still shut down the APU normally.

I have not had the opportunity to try this with SU8.

...jim

 

Thanks Jim,

I will give that a try, I must admit I do not usually start the APU until I am all prepped and ready to go

25 minutes ago, JimBrown said:

The A32NX may be doing its own thing independent of the in sim icing settings. What has worked for me in the past is to get the APU running ASAP and turn on Window/Probe heat on the overhead panel. Takes a couple of minutes, but the windscreen eventually clears up. Once the engines are running, one can still shut down the APU normally.

I have not had the opportunity to try this with SU8.

...jim

 

This does work...I was surprised to be icing up at the gate with clear skies at KDEN a few days ago...

17 minutes ago, RJC68 said:

usually start the APU

IRL

You don't need start APU to make Windows/ pitot heat works. 

The aircraft uses electrical heating for anti-icing each windshield and defogging the cockpit side windows.

Two independent Window Heat Computers (WHCs), one on each side, automatically regulate the system, protect it against overheating, and indicate faults.

Window heating comes on:

‐ automatically when at least one engine is running, or when the aircraft is in flight.

‐ manually, before engine start, when the flight crew switches ON the PROBE/WINDOW HEAT pushbutton switch.

Windshield heating operates at low power on the ground and at normal power in flight. The changeover is automatic. Only one heating level exists for the windows. ( Similar logic applies to pitot and probes heaters )

You can turn the icing off with a slider when you are in the developer mode. Totally overdone and simply wrong how they implemented it....

4 hours ago, polosim said:

IRL

You don't need start APU to make Windows/ pitot heat works. 

The aircraft uses electrical heating for anti-icing each windshield and defogging the cockpit side windows.

Two independent Window Heat Computers (WHCs), one on each side, automatically regulate the system, protect it against overheating, and indicate faults.

Window heating comes on:

‐ automatically when at least one engine is running, or when the aircraft is in flight.

‐ manually, before engine start, when the flight crew switches ON the PROBE/WINDOW HEAT pushbutton switch.

Windshield heating operates at low power on the ground and at normal power in flight. The changeover is automatic. Only one heating level exists for the windows. ( Similar logic applies to pitot and probes heaters )

Thanks for the great info,

I have just finished my current flight and will reload back in Toronto and turn on the PROBE/WINDOW HEAT as soon as I have ground power connected

3 hours ago, Silicus said:

You can turn the icing off with a slider when you are in the developer mode. Totally overdone and simply wrong how they implemented it....

I am aware of this, what seems to be happening after SU8 is that the ice just keeps building up after putting the slider to zero, prior to SU8 I'd lower the slider to zero then hit save and it would remember this.

3 minutes ago, RJC68 said:

I am aware of this, what seems to be happening after SU8 is that the ice just keeps building up after putting the slider to zero, prior to SU8 I'd lower the slider to zero then hit save and it would remember this.

Just another example of lack of attention to detail by the development crew, failing to track down collateral changes across the board during development of updates.