Icing + CG/Trim question

[Daz85UK]

Hi Guys,

Absolutely love this aircraft!

I have a couple of questions:-

Is de icing actually required? As in does ice accumulate and affect the aircraft or is purely for "roleplaying" ice conditions? I only ask as I have yet to see ice on the aircraft and never know if I need to actually de-ice or not?

2nd question, I can't seem to find the CG value to enter in the perf data page therefore I dont know how to find out what the correct T/O trim will be, I know the CG field doesnt have to be filled in but how else would I get the correct trim setting?

 

Thanks

 

[N330CT]

Take my word for it, its required. You will see it show up on the wings as a haze.  At first I thought it was a graphics texture issue.  I was wrong and tried to take off......not good.

[Rastuasi]

Ice does accumulate, but from personal experience, I left my CL60 overnight in a place that had 2 feet of snow fall, no accumulation on it (yes career mode). So no idea how to get it to work.

[Daz85UK]

Thanks guys, any idea on finding out the correct T/O trim?

[Rastuasi]

5.0 to 6.0 is what I go with, so long as it's in that range, I just leave it. I am sure there's a more official way, but I have not found any charts to show that.

[JJM]

16 hours ago, Rastuasi said:

5.0 to 6.0 is what I go with, so long as it's in that range, I just leave it. I am sure there's a more official way, but I have not found any charts to show that.

Toto and Graeme both say the same thing, and I'm sure they got their information from @CL650Pilot.

[Daz85UK]

Great thanks for the replies!