Post by Tom Goodrick on Mar 4, 2009 10:24:11 GMT -5
There is icing in FS9 but you have to make it yourself. You have to set up "Advanced Weather" specifying "severe icing" and set clouds and precip with temperatures that support icing. You can duplicate realistic icing with mif level clouds containing ice that you climb through, stay above or stay under, or set the worst case where icing occurs from the ground up to a high level like 9,000 ft. It works best if you set this for the entire world rather than for one station as an aircraft flies through the weather near one station pretty quickly.
The gauge I made shows the pounds of ice that have accumulated while flying. It works with any aircraft. It measures total weight minus total fuel when on the ground (no ice) and then, during flight, measures that weight difference again and subtracts the value measured on the ground. The result is the amount of ice that has accumulated. As an example, when I took off in a Rockwell Shrike and flew at 3000 ft in a region where there was icing to 9,000 ft, I accumulated 27 lbs of ice in two and a half minutes. Other effects of ice are loss of prop efficiency and loss of airspeed and altitude as total pressure and static pressure holes get blocked. Obviously, this is not a gauge for real aircraft which cannot weight themselves in the air. But it helps us sim pilots know when we are in ice so we can take steps to deal with it - climb when you can or else head for the shed.
Here's the code:
<Gauge Name="Ice Gauge" Version="1.0">
<Image Name="Box.bmp" ImageSizes="64,48"/>
<Element>
<Position X="14" Y="11" />
<Visible>(A:Circuit general panel on, bool)</Visible>
<Visible>(G:Var2) 0 == (A:Avionics master switch, bool) &&</Visible>
<Select>
<Value>
(A:SIM ON GROUND, bool) if{ (A:TOTAL WEIGHT, pounds) (A:FUEL TOTAL QUANTITY WEIGHT, pounds) - (>L:LGBASE, pounds) }
</Value>
</Select>
<Element>
<Text X="40" Y="14" Bright="Yes" Length="5" Font="Arial" Color="#00FFFF" Adjust="Center" VerticalAdjust="Center" Multiline="No" Fixed="No">
<String>%((A:TOTAL WEIGHT, pounds) (A:FUEL TOTAL QUANTITY WEIGHT, pounds) - (L:LGBASE, pounds) -)%!5.2f!</String>
</Text>
</Element>
</Element>
<Element>
<Position X="11" Y="32" />
<Element>
<Text X="50" Y="12" Bright="Yes" Length="8" Font="Arial Bold" Color="#114444" Adjust="Left" VerticalAdjust="center" Multiline="No">
<String>Ice Lbs</String>
</Text>
</Element>
</Element>
<Mouse>
<Tooltip>Percent Power</Tooltip>
</Mouse>
</Gauge>
(Note in the 5th line the two & signs must be typed followed by "amp;" in the text version.) Copy this text version into a file "Ice.txt" and save it. Then change then "save as" the file with the extension ".xml" and save that separately. That becomes the usable gauge file. It is a stand-alone gauge you can paste anywhere on any panel.
The gauge I made shows the pounds of ice that have accumulated while flying. It works with any aircraft. It measures total weight minus total fuel when on the ground (no ice) and then, during flight, measures that weight difference again and subtracts the value measured on the ground. The result is the amount of ice that has accumulated. As an example, when I took off in a Rockwell Shrike and flew at 3000 ft in a region where there was icing to 9,000 ft, I accumulated 27 lbs of ice in two and a half minutes. Other effects of ice are loss of prop efficiency and loss of airspeed and altitude as total pressure and static pressure holes get blocked. Obviously, this is not a gauge for real aircraft which cannot weight themselves in the air. But it helps us sim pilots know when we are in ice so we can take steps to deal with it - climb when you can or else head for the shed.
Here's the code:
<Gauge Name="Ice Gauge" Version="1.0">
<Image Name="Box.bmp" ImageSizes="64,48"/>
<Element>
<Position X="14" Y="11" />
<Visible>(A:Circuit general panel on, bool)</Visible>
<Visible>(G:Var2) 0 == (A:Avionics master switch, bool) &&</Visible>
<Select>
<Value>
(A:SIM ON GROUND, bool) if{ (A:TOTAL WEIGHT, pounds) (A:FUEL TOTAL QUANTITY WEIGHT, pounds) - (>L:LGBASE, pounds) }
</Value>
</Select>
<Element>
<Text X="40" Y="14" Bright="Yes" Length="5" Font="Arial" Color="#00FFFF" Adjust="Center" VerticalAdjust="Center" Multiline="No" Fixed="No">
<String>%((A:TOTAL WEIGHT, pounds) (A:FUEL TOTAL QUANTITY WEIGHT, pounds) - (L:LGBASE, pounds) -)%!5.2f!</String>
</Text>
</Element>
</Element>
<Element>
<Position X="11" Y="32" />
<Element>
<Text X="50" Y="12" Bright="Yes" Length="8" Font="Arial Bold" Color="#114444" Adjust="Left" VerticalAdjust="center" Multiline="No">
<String>Ice Lbs</String>
</Text>
</Element>
</Element>
<Mouse>
<Tooltip>Percent Power</Tooltip>
</Mouse>
</Gauge>
(Note in the 5th line the two & signs must be typed followed by "amp;" in the text version.) Copy this text version into a file "Ice.txt" and save it. Then change then "save as" the file with the extension ".xml" and save that separately. That becomes the usable gauge file. It is a stand-alone gauge you can paste anywhere on any panel.