William G 11 Posted August 2, 2019 Share Posted August 2, 2019 For the last several flights I have had a non functioning airspeed indicator. I made sure I have removed the pitot tube cover, confirming in external view that it goes away. I have not turned on the pitot tube heat on the ground, and turning it on once airborne does not fix the airspeed indicator. I have had previous flights where it worked as expected so I can't figure out why it no longer works. every thing is marked good on the shift-2 condition page. It has continued to do this through a couple of simulator/ computer restarts I am using FSX steam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William G 11 Posted August 3, 2019 Author Share Posted August 3, 2019 I found that the SP-ASR version's airspeed indicator works fine. I would not be be surprised if the other flights I mentioned that worked were in this version so the issue is with the regular version. I notice the SP-ASR is better on other areas such as more accurate Idle RPM and so forth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted August 5, 2019 Aerosoft Share Posted August 5, 2019 I am unable to recreate this issue. Are you sure it is not just icing? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William G 11 Posted August 5, 2019 Author Share Posted August 5, 2019 I believe it may be icing but wouldn't turning on the pitot tube clear it up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted August 6, 2019 Aerosoft Share Posted August 6, 2019 if there is power to it and you give it some time it should. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
William G 11 Posted August 6, 2019 Author Share Posted August 6, 2019 I decided to take a more scientific approach, since before I had been using RW weather and what ever temps that gave me with the resulting inconsistent results . I can confirm it is icing and given enough time the pitot heat does restore the ASI function, It just takes much longer than I have been used to in the past. Other aircraft may be the same but since there is no issue with turning the pitot heat on immediately after start I never ran into this before. in future I will not be quite as stingy with it's use on the ground. Thanks for your time, sorry to have troubled you WG Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted August 7, 2019 Aerosoft Share Posted August 7, 2019 No problem! Happy to see it solved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerosoft Aerosoft Team [Inactive Account] 51558 Posted August 7, 2019 Aerosoft Share Posted August 7, 2019 Because we believe this topic has been answered we have closed it. If you have any more questions feel free to open a new topic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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