Pitot Blockage disables the Pitot heat
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Are you using a Bravo throttle? You probably have pitot heat bound to that and it's overriding your turning it on. You can tell if a binding is overriding it by looking at your current draw - does it go up when you turn on your pitot heat? If not then a hardware binding is overriding it most likely (happened to me).
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From a post on exactly the same topic for the Duke:
Wow, you're absolutely right about that. It appears to be a bug/"feature" of the flight simulator, as the input event "K:PITOT_HEAT_TOGGLE" is completely disabled when there is a pitot blockage. Given what I have seen under the hood of MSFS, I suspect that behavior has been there since at least the early 2000's, if not the early 90's. I've been contemplating creating my own elaborate simulation of pitot-static effects, which would solve that problem as a side-effect. Thanks for pointing it out.
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Are you using a Bravo throttle? You probably have pitot heat bound to that and it's overriding your turning it on. You can tell if a binding is overriding it by looking at your current draw - does it go up when you turn on your pitot heat? If not then a hardware binding is overriding it most likely (happened to me).
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From a post on exactly the same topic for the Duke:
Wow, you're absolutely right about that. It appears to be a bug/"feature" of the flight simulator, as the input event "K:PITOT_HEAT_TOGGLE" is completely disabled when there is a pitot blockage. Given what I have seen under the hood of MSFS, I suspect that behavior has been there since at least the early 2000's, if not the early 90's. I've been contemplating creating my own elaborate simulation of pitot-static effects, which would solve that problem as a side-effect. Thanks for pointing it out.
@Black-Square Ok, great. Is it too late to be considered for some maintenance?
