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FSX Icing

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How real is icing simulated. I don't know. I can fly hours in icing conditions and there is sometimes a similar effect, but not real enought. After this I develop this simconnect tool to have more "real" icing effect. You can feel it now! The tool calculates realtime icing conditions and simulate it.
 
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Real Icing

Real aircraft icing is a very complex issue. Here is an example: 2 aircraft are flying in clouds, temps and dewpoints are identical yet one picks up ice and the other flies on carefree IMC.

Ice is dependent on:
temps: +5C/-20C
relative humidity:100% obviously if you are in a cloud
and liquid water content: the amount of water in a cloud. Skew-t charts can
give you an idea of the liquid water content via the
saturation mixing ratio lines in grams (water)/kg (air).
http://www.met.tamu.edu/class/atmo251/Skew-T.pdf

The ADDS weather page http://adds.aviationweather.noaa.gov/icing/ has icing maps but its all probability at this point.
There are also super-cooled large droplets SLD which is super cooled water which has not frozen. the danger with this type of ice is it adheres to surfaces other than the leading edges of surfaces.

I hope this helps
 
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