I was flying through the clouds in freezing conditions in Milviz c130R. The ice soon accumulated and when I actuated prop deicing, there were some loud bangs and the plane jolted a little bit. I was quite surprised. A coincidence or they simulated pieces of ice flying off the prop and hitting the plane!?!?!?!?!

EDIT: YES! It was the sound of breaking ice! First time there were some loud bangs, too! Now, only the sound. Never heard someone mentioning it. What a surprise! The feeling was.... like in Titanic; flying over the Alps avoiding the mountaintops and listening to the ice crackling!!!!

Edited February 27, 20242 yr by Bartul

Yep, its a great feature. I might be wrong but I think they have even taken the amount of simulated ice into account; if you switch on prop anti-ice earlier the bangs are not as loud.

It is one of my favourite aircraft. It has a decent range and has anti-icing. Optional failures keeps you alert. I had an engine failure over a stretch of ocean once which was put me in the posiiton to troubleshoot and keep flying at the same time while also considering whether I could reach my destination on the remaining engine. Since you can only crossfeed from the main tank you will lose what is remaining in the auxiliary tank.
SInce then I try to use the auxiliary tanks as early as possible (when there is some space in the main tank to allow for fuel that returns from the engine).

I only wish they had taken the engine simulation a step further like A2A has done with the Comanche. A walkaround mode would have been great too. Then again the C310 was released much earlier than the Comanche.

 

Great timing, I experienced this in the 310 over the weekend. I wasn't sure exactly what had happened but attributed it to ice breaking since I had been playing with the anti ice options.

42 minutes ago, Donka said:

Great timing, I experienced this in the 310 over the weekend. I wasn't sure exactly what had happened but attributed it to ice breaking since I had been playing with the anti ice options.

Normally you should enable anti-ice before it starts to accumulate but this is more fun😁 In a real-world aircraft this would be bad as these chunks of ice ice can damage the fuselage.

1 minute ago, orchestra_nl said:

Normally you should enable anti-ice before it starts to accumulate but this is more fun😁 In a real-world aircraft this would be bad as these chunks of ice ice can damage the fuselage.

Yup, agreed. Was just playing around to see what kind of things were simulated.

11 minutes ago, orchestra_nl said:

Normally you should enable anti-ice before it starts to accumulate but this is more fun😁 In a real-world aircraft this would be bad as these chunks of ice ice can damage the fuselage.

Chunks of ice fly off props all the time.  On the ATR, the anti ice works in cycles, so ice accumulates and then sheds.  It definitely hits the fuselage.  That’s why if you look at a lot of turboprops, like an ATR or a Q400 or King Air, you’ll see extra “amour” that is placed over where the ice hits.  
 

I’ll tell you, 2:30 am, half asleep, and the ice sheds off a Caravan prop and smashes into the windscreen, that’ll wake you up! 

1 hour ago, ATRguy said:

Chunks of ice fly off props all the time

Yup. But I don't know whether these plates are common on private aircraft. I've read on a Diamond forum that these plates are available though, as well as a film that looks better but is less effective at stopping these chunks of ice.
But AFAIK most icing systems are primarly about preventing icing rather than removing it.

2 hours ago, orchestra_nl said:

Yup. But I don't know whether these plates are common on private aircraft. I've read on a Diamond forum that these plates are available though, as well as a film that looks better but is less effective at stopping these chunks of ice.
But AFAIK most icing systems are primarly about preventing icing rather than removing it.

Depends on the system.   TKS is prevention, boots are removing.  

7 hours ago, ATRguy said:

you’ll see extra “amour” that is placed over where the ice hits.  

I "love" that comment, unless you meant to type "armour". 😄

Now I know the C130R simulates ice hits, I'm going to have to try that. 👍

Armour yes.  Apparently the iPhone doesn’t spell proper English haha. 

This is fantastic. Have not seen any of the Asobo planes do this...

30 minutes ago, ATRguy said:

Armour yes.  Apparently the iPhone doesn’t spell proper English haha. 

Must have arrived via France! 😁

 

19 minutes ago, Flyfaster_MTN002 said:

Have not seen any of the Asobo planes do this...

I would imagine it's something they've not bothered to, or considered, adding. Leave it up to 3rd party devs to add extra realism.