Hey guys! I hope you are enjoying the game!
Anyways, I tried to fly the Cessna 172 G1000 from Ambri Airport(LSPM) in Switzerland to visit a place nearby.
But a weird thing happened, the aircraft could not climb a high enough altitude to go over the mountains! I was stalling at a normal AOA and my speed couldn’t get past 70 at a maintained altitude.
I had to land on grass because as the terrain gets higher, my aircraft just keeps stalling.
Please try the flying at the same conditions. Ambri Airport/Cessna 172/clear skies/4pm and try to go over the mountains.
Can somebody explain to me what’s happening here? Is this realistic? Or is this some sort of bug?
Depending on your altitude and fuel mixture this sounds very realistic. How high were you?
In real life planes can only fly so high. That all’s depends on a lot of things but some of them include your weight and balance and your fuel mixture. The higher you climb the more you will need to lean the mixture. Even still a C172 ceiling can be somewhere around 13,000 feet.
Ambri Airport is at 3000ft and I remember I climbed upto 6000ft. Then as I flew near the mountains, there are some fields and houses at around 6000ft too, so I was trying to pull up to go over the terrain.
But the plane just couldn’t pull up anymore and even at a very small upward tip of the nose, my speed was dropping rapidly at 100% throttle
Hmm…did you have the mixture leaned out? Or could he what the other said.
On a side note, I have yet to get stuck in a downward wind slope. However the thought of that even being possible in the sim is very exciting.
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Somebody on another thread told me that it’s probably because of density altitude
Also, I didn’t change the fuel mixture, it was just on the default setting
Pull the mixture back slowly the higher you climb. You will see an increase in power/RPM.