altitude question

[southwestairlines2487]

how come i can not go above 15,000 feet without stalling out,o im in a 737-700 aircraft.

[Daube]

There might be several reasons, but the best one might be structural icing. Did you turn your anti-ice systems ON ?

[DaveSims]

How fast are you traveling?

Check your the settings for the airspeed reading, located in the realism settings.  Is it using True Air Speed, or Indicated Air Speed?  It should be using Indicated Air Speed.

How heavy is the aircraft loaded, if the aircraft is too heavy, it will not climb either.

[southwestairlines2487]

There might be several reasons, but the best one might be structural icing. Did you turn your anti-ice systems ON ?

Yes Sir.

[southwestairlines2487]

[quote]How fast are you traveling?

Check your the settings for the airspeed reading, located in the realism settings.

[BlackAce]

Firstly, who MADE your plane?

[JoBee]

Excessive rate of climb?

[Rocket_Bird]

[quote][quote]How fast are you traveling?

Check your the settings for the airspeed reading, located in the realism settings.

[Dave71K]

Here's a simple test.

Set your fuel to 30% and set payload to 0 then see how high you can get.  If you get above 15,000ft then your problem is over loading the aircraft. If you still can't get over 15,000ft with the aircraft load set to what I said then there's another problem going on somewhere.

[southwestairlines2487]

Firstly, who MADE your plane?

FSX/FS2004 Boeing 737-700 Southwest Airlines New Colors (Category: FSX > Civil Jets)

[southwestairlines2487]

Excessive rate of climb?

no sir

[southwestairlines2487]

[quote]Here's a simple test.

Set your fuel to 30% and set payload to 0 then see how high you can get.

[dave3cu]

From your description I installed this one http://simviation.com/1/search?submit=1&keywords=1phswa737.zip&categoryId=&filename=Y

TOW at 153000: had no problem climbing thru 15000' (AP at 250 kias, 3000 fpm vs). Had to step down vs above 23000', climbing to 30000', to maintain proper AoA. Eventually climbed to 45,200ft/13,700m with weight down to 141,000.

So I don't see any problems with the performance.....

I apologize if this sounds like a stupid question, but have to ask (as I've done it

[southwestairlines2487]

[quote]From your description I installed this one http://simviation.com/1/search?submit=1&keywords=1phswa737.zip&categoryId=&filename=Y

TOW at 153000: had no problem climbing thru 15000' (AP at 250 kias, 3000 fpm vs). Had to step down vs above 23000', climbing to 30000', to maintain proper AoA. Eventually climbed to 45,200ft/13,700m with weight down to 141,000.

So I don't see any problems with the performance.....

I apologize if this sounds like a stupid question, but have to ask (as I've done it