Just wondering what random bug I’ve hit. I set customer weather to try a local airport instrument approach (overcast at 1000 feet, winds 330 @ 10 gusting 12, standard temp, pressure 30.01). I was crusing at 2000, descending for 1600 around 500 fpm. To my surprise, trying to level off I couldnt. I was at full power, 2550 RPM and barely maintaining altitude. Airspeed was 85 kts. Eventually stabilized at 400 feet agl, but could not climb to any safe altitude. Thankfully I’m a flat lander and just had to avoid some radio towers and was able to land. Is this a thing now? I’ve been away from MSFS for about a month or so. Never experienced this before. The 172 has always been fairly solid.
Carb ice? can’t remember if its fuel injected or not.
Pitot tube heater on?
Engine leaned properly?
Maybe your mixture control has somehow become unconnected to your hardware?
Both the R and S are fuel injected.
Was the fuel injected 172 (far as i know thats all thats in FS20). The 152 would be carb version in this sim. I tried playing with mixture, double checked i hadn’t thrown flaps in. Def was a weird one for sure. The engine was cranking away, just seemed like no lift as if this was severe icing although visually I saw none. Very weird. Ill try again and see what happens.
Check your realism settings.Make sure you are on “Modern” and not “Legacy”
Well, if you were at freezing temps, and with a ceiling of 1000 feet, you were probably icing up.
Not good to fly 172 in that weather!!
Def not freezing temps. I reran the same weather preset I made today and it was just fine and acted as expected.
Icing can occur at temps under 10C.
Under that temp in clouds, most airliners run with anti icing on.
But if it’s working OK, that’s what counts.
Pretty sure I had 15C set. I didnt see any visual cues but who knows. I reran the same settings today and it was fine so possible random bug who knows.
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