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February 24th, 2011 - 11:03 am ET by Chris AKA (Dude) | Report spam
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I haven't simmed as much as I thought I would have but last night was
quite at the house so I fired it up and made a short direct flight to
Sedona from Deer Valley. I was using REX Weather, picked a Cessna 206
Stationair and took off North to Sedona.
After about 5 - 10 min I'm at about 5500' and noticed I'm losing power
and my airspeed indicator is showing 0 kts. It was raining out and huge
clouds all around and I looked at my OAT and noticed it was below
freezing so I put the plane on auto pilot for a heading hold and looked
up the keyboard command for carb ice and pitot tube heat. H and Shift+H
respectively. Within seconds power was restored and I was showing 120kts
again.
I had never ran into that before in the sim so it was fun to realize
what was happening and correcting it.

Cheers,
Chris
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#1 Uncle Vic
February 24th, 2011 - 02:42 pm ET | Report spam
"Chris AKA (Dude)" wrote in
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I haven't simmed as much as I thought I would have but last night was
quite at the house so I fired it up and made a short direct flight to
Sedona from Deer Valley. I was using REX Weather, picked a Cessna 206
Stationair and took off North to Sedona.
After about 5 - 10 min I'm at about 5500' and noticed I'm losing power
and my airspeed indicator is showing 0 kts. It was raining out and
huge clouds all around and I looked at my OAT and noticed it was below
freezing so I put the plane on auto pilot for a heading hold and
looked up the keyboard command for carb ice and pitot tube heat. H and
Shift+H respectively. Within seconds power was restored and I was
showing 120kts again.
I had never ran into that before in the sim so it was fun to realize
what was happening and correcting it.

Cheers,
Chris





Get yourself one of these...

http://tinyurl.com/4b4h4hb

...and mount this on top...

http://sportys.com/PilotShop/product/11910

These have added a whole new spectrum to the sim for me.

My setup:

http://tinyurl.com/4cyv4e2

I have the rudder pedals too, not shown in the last pic... anyhoo, the
switch box on top of the yoke has switches for pitot heat and de-ice.
Out of the box, it only works in FSX, until you download FSUIPC and pay
the 20 Euros to register it. Start FS9, pause it, then double-click the
FSUIPC icon you put on your desktop to start it up.

Heh... I need to get the radio box next. Finding the hot spots in
someof those panels drives me nuts.

Uncle Vic

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