Re: [Flightgear-devel] Icing

2006-05-20 Thread Paul Surgeon
I forgot to add some URLs which may be useful for modeling ice in FG. This one ( http://www.auf.asn.au/meteorology/section10.html ) has a nice diagram that shows the ice accretion in mm on a small probe for the air miles flown, in clouds with liquid water content varying from 0.2 g/m³ to 1.5

RE: [Flightgear-devel] Icing

2006-05-19 Thread Berndt, Jon S
Hi, I am experimenting with structural icing and am hacking on a little nasal script that checks outside temperature and dewpoint to guess if the aircraft is currently in a potential icing area and pack some ice on the surfaces. To get ice on the wings one thing is needed besides low

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Icing

2006-05-19 Thread Julien Pierru
well i think that you would need dense clouds to do that so you could just check for the altitude and see if it is within a cloud layer.Also i have seen pictures of ice on aircraft in flight and they were nowhere near a cloud. For example the contrail is a result of high moisture in the air and

Re: [Flightgear-devel] Icing

2006-05-19 Thread Ampere K. Hardraade
On Friday 19 May 2006 13:21, Julien Pierru wrote: well i think that you would need dense clouds to do that so you could just check for the altitude and see if it is within a cloud layer. Also i have seen pictures of ice on aircraft in flight and they were nowhere near a cloud. For example the