Resort Delivery Mission in FSX Problem

[Sir Puma]

Ok, so I'm having fun doing the missions in FSX. But I've run into a bit of a problem. On the Apple Delivery mission when I get to the point where I'm supposed to climb out from the second drop point and up over the mountains to pick up the other plane, I crash. I don't mean the game crashes, the airplane crashes. For some reason the aircraft looses power, manifold pressure, fuel flow, air speed and crashes. Always. Nothing I do keeps the aircraft above 6000 feet. The mission is a Beech Baron and should be able to just jump right over some low mountains.

Currently my game settings is auto mixture off, so I should be able to adjust mixture. But no adjusting of mixture helps. Anyone else run into this problem? :-/

[Boikat]

Check the anti icing switches.

[Sir Puma]

Did that. The "co-pilot" tells you to turn them on if you haven't already. It doesn't matter if I turn them on before or when he says to, I still crash. It's like auto-mixture is on as far as being able to adjust it, but it's not auto adjusting. I'm going to try changing my settings to auto-mixture on and see if it will work.

[TRflyman01]

It has been a long time since I flew this so I may be incorrect in my advice but my two cents is make sure carb heat is on and fly down the valley, I think they say something about this in the mission, until you gradually gain enough alt. to get over the mountains.
Mike 

[Capt.Propwash]

what is your airspeed when you try to 'attack' the mountains.  I have found in "free flight" that when I am flying the Baron 58 .. 500 ft off the canyon floor up in the mountains of British Columbia, Canada.. when i come to some mountains, I have to kick in a notch or 2 of flaps just to crest some hills.   I dont know if you can do this in the mission, but it might be worth a try.

[Sir Puma]

Ok, this is weird. On the 2D panel there's only 3 deice switches, Pitot, Prop and Boot. On the 3D panel there's 7. Two Pitot, Fuel Deice, Stall Warning Deice, Prop, Windshield and Surface. When you turn on all 3 of the 2D panel switches all but the Windshield switches on the 3D panel are on.

When I hit 5500 feet the manifold pressure starts dropping. By the time I hit 6500 feet the manifold pressure is nil, airspeed drops to 50 Kts and I stall. Going back down to 4500 feet brings the manifold pressure back up enough to climb.

I turned on the Windshield Deice switch and lo and behold manifold pressure stays up enough to climb over the mountains.

[EVVFCX]

Don't think I've done this one yet, so you'll have to take this as a guess:

Check cowl settings and lean mixture as you climb to maintain manifold pressure.
You could be 'cooking the engines as you climb with cowls fully shut.

[Dave71K]

Ok, this is weird. On the 2D panel there's only 3 deice switches, Pitot, Prop and Boot. On the 3D panel there's 7. Two Pitot, Fuel Deice, Stall Warning Deice, Prop, Windshield and Surface. When you turn on all 3 of the 2D panel switches all but the Windshield switches on the 3D panel are on.

When I hit 5500 feet the manifold pressure starts dropping. By the time I hit 6500 feet the manifold pressure is nil, airspeed drops to 50 Kts and I stall. Going back down to 4500 feet brings the manifold pressure back up enough to climb.

I turned on the Windshield Deice switch and lo and behold manifold pressure stays up enough to climb over the mountains.

I had that same problem and I can confirm the above is the solution. Turn the De-Ice buttons on located behind the yoke.