New Release: Carenado Piper PA-34 Seneca V

[WxMarc]

This is a bug with the MSFS core logic for turbocharged engines. The same bug affects the Just Flight Turbo Arrow. I collected a bunch of data and put together a bug report on it. Here’s the thread I created, in case you want to learn more:

Inaccurate Mixture Behavior on Turbocharged Piston Engines

There appears to be a bug in the core mixture logic for turbocharged piston engines in MSFS. In real-life, a turbocharged fuel-injected engine should be able to climb with full-rich fuel mixture all the way to the critical altitude for the turbocharger with no loss of power or engine performance. The turbocharger can compensate for lower air pressure with altitude by compressing more air into the intake manifold and allowing the engine to operate with the same manifold pressure as it would at se…

I also created a mod to correct this behavior. It requires editing the panel file for the Seneca, but it works well. The mixture lever in the virtual cockpit will move as you climb (it shouldn’t in real-life), but your hardware mixture lever will behave the way it should in real life – you can keep the mixture at full-rich during the climb and then lean once you reach cruising altitude. Here’s a github link for the mod:

GitHub - WxMarc/TurboEngineMixtureController: Mixture Controller for...