Questions about Carb icing

[Erlk0enig]

Hi everyone,

at first, I want to send a big THANK YOU at everyone at A2a and the beta team, for such a wonderful aircraft. You really keep surprising again and again with each new release, how much better you managed to go with your aircraft.

OK, here are my questions:
To which degree is carb icing an issue with the MKkI/II? Ich do not see any countermeasures in this aircraft. The carb lies before the supercharger, so no warmed charging air would help. Is it perhaps impossible that carb icing occurs from a constructional point of view, because the intake air gets warmed automatically (by the heating fluid e.g.), before it enters the carburettor? But, if carb icing is an issue, what are the countermeasures?

I hope, I have not overlooked something in the manual...

Best regards from Germany,
E.

[Killratio]

You haven't missed anything mate,

The Carb icing defence is not selectable, it is actually a fixed set of channels which are cast into the carby body of the Merlin engine. These channels are part of the circulation system for the coolant and the oil. So a constant flow of hot glycol or glycol water mix (depending on the Mk) and oil flows through the carby body keeping it warm and fighting ice.

This does not meant that the aircraft is immune from carby ice but it is pretty effective.

As always, the FIRST defence against ice is AVOID conditions which encourage it.


Darryl

[Erlk0enig]

Thanks, Darryl, for your quick and detailed reply. A good solution indeed to prevent carb icing, and I have faith that A2A have modelled it correctly

[Killratio]

and I have faith that A2A have modelled it correctly

They have indeed!!!


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