Version: 1.5.27.0
Frequency: Consistently
Severity: High
Bug description:
Outlet components have a temperature readout via:
(A:PNEUMATICS COMPONENT TEMPERATURE:'WindshieldDeice'_n, Fahrenheit)
Right now, these temperatures will increase correctly when hot air is flowing, but after cutting them off with a valve, the temperature stops rising and then never drops. It just stays at the same hot value indefinitely.
This makes it hard to simulate systems like windshield de-ice, which rely on hot air but should also cool down over time once the valve is closed or partially closed.
On the real Learjet, you can overheat the windshield if you use de-ice at low altitude in only semi-freezing weather, so the real switch allows you to adjust the valve position to get less hot air. To model this behavior, we need the outlet temperature to fall back toward ambient over time after flow is reduced or shut off, not stay “stuck” at a high value.
It would be great if outlet component temperatures could cool down gradually once the feeding valve is closed (or flow is reduced), so that we can properly simulate adjustable windshield de-ice behavior.