Extreme RIse in Cabin Temperature
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Just a quick question/report about what seems like unrealistic increase in cabin temperature.
I mostly fly from cooler places. For example this morning, I had a 5:30am departure from CYCG Kootenay in the mountains of British Columbia. OAT indicated on the thermometer was 50, there were scattered clouds and the sun wasn't yet peeking over the mountains. Upon entering the plane, cabin temp was 71F. Within 5 minutes, while setting up, the cabin temp was 98F. Opening the doors cooled the cabin down to 72F in about 2 minutes. However, when I closed the doors (and opened the window), the cabin temp rose back to 78F in a couple minutes - basically by the time I was ready to taxi.
I only bring it up because it's pretty consistent. Enter the plane, start setting up, and before too long the Cabin Temp High light is on. I could understand this rapid rise in cabin temp if the OAT was high, but rocketing up to 98 (one day when OAT was also about 50, cabin temp went to 112!) just seems too fast.
Is anybody else seeing this?
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Just a quick question/report about what seems like unrealistic increase in cabin temperature.
I mostly fly from cooler places. For example this morning, I had a 5:30am departure from CYCG Kootenay in the mountains of British Columbia. OAT indicated on the thermometer was 50, there were scattered clouds and the sun wasn't yet peeking over the mountains. Upon entering the plane, cabin temp was 71F. Within 5 minutes, while setting up, the cabin temp was 98F. Opening the doors cooled the cabin down to 72F in about 2 minutes. However, when I closed the doors (and opened the window), the cabin temp rose back to 78F in a couple minutes - basically by the time I was ready to taxi.
I only bring it up because it's pretty consistent. Enter the plane, start setting up, and before too long the Cabin Temp High light is on. I could understand this rapid rise in cabin temp if the OAT was high, but rocketing up to 98 (one day when OAT was also about 50, cabin temp went to 112!) just seems too fast.
Is anybody else seeing this?
@RPGamerous You actually caught a problem! @Zacke is correct that all of my aircraft implement solar heating, but the numbers you were seeing looked way too high. Indeed, I made a unit conversion error in the code. Will be fixed for the next update! Thanks!
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Thanks both of you. @Zacke I did observe an extreme version of my issue in a SoCal flight where the OAT was around 100F and of course sunny -- I wasn't surprised by the temp skyrocketing in the afternoon sunlight. But I also do a lot of early morning and early evening flying in places where there's not really a lot of sunlight -- cloudy Southeast Alaska, for example -- that's what made me question it.
@Black-Square thanks for confirming it wasn't my imagination. To be honest, cabin temp control flummoxes me in a number of aircraft, and I might fixate on it a bit too much as a result -- probably the main reason I even noticed this, because it put me behind the curve right from the start lol
