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I have a problem with a Baron 58, or I don't know how to climb hight...

acording as a specification of the baron 58, it can fly up 20.000 feets more or less... but, when I arrive to 10.000 feets more or less, It's too difficult to continue climb...

I have the cowl's flaps open, I use de autopilot in climb of 500 feets per minute...

What I do wrong ?

T.I.A.

pd: sorry for my poor english...

Ernesto Aides
Ashdod - Israel

Do you have "Auto mixture" set in the realism settings ?

If not.. you need to lean the mixture as you climb. If it's left full-rich.. the engines won't have much power at all at 10,000 feet.

I use fuel-flow (try to keep it peaked as you climb) as a gauge. You're supposed to use EGT, but M$ didn't see fit to make that parameter function properly or appear accurately on a gauge.

Hope that helps

Reduce the weight some. At max gross weight, you probably won't make it to the service ceiling in a reasonable amount of time.

Leaning the mixture is important too, as Brett said. The EGT gauge doesn't work like it does in real life ("as real as it get"? I think not.). So either watch for the manifold pressure to peak out as you press Ctrl+Shift+F2, or listen to the engine to find when it gets back to full loudness. Also you'll need to increase your throttle setting as you climb higher.