I am following Doug Horton's tutorial on 'Using the Garmin G1000 Glass Cockpit'.My problem is that it involves taking the Baron 58 (same in Mooney) to 13,500'Both these planes are nearly falling out of the sky by 10,000. I have full throttle, fine pitch etc. Can these aircraft achieve this height? If so, what am I doing wrong?Thanks

I am following Doug Horton's tutorial on 'Using the Garmin G1000 Glass Cockpit'.My problem is that it involves taking the Baron 58 (same in Mooney) to 13,500'Both these planes are nearly falling out of the sky by 10,000. I have full throttle, fine pitch etc. Can these aircraft achieve this height? If so, what am I doing wrong?Thanks

Are you leaning the mixture?IAN

No. The RPM are max.I am wondering whether something is wrong with my installation. I have been up to 12000' with no problem in a Cessna 206 in order to discard parachutists so these planes should have no problem at all.

No. The RPM are max.I am wondering whether something is wrong with my installation. I have been up to 12000' with no problem in a Cessna 206 in order to discard parachutists so these planes should have no problem at all.

The service ceiling of a 58 is around 20k, but you will never get there in FSX. First, as Ian said, you need to lean the mixture above 5k, to have any chance of getting to 13.5. Even then it's going to take a while as the climb rate sucks as you get higher. If you dont know the procedure for leaning, set your FSX default to 'autolean' in the settings. They really needed the turbo version for FSX, but thats just a dream now. I have had the default 58 up to around 15K, so it will get there, but you need a LOT of patience to make it happen.

The service ceiling of a 58 is around 20k, but you will never get there in FSX. First, as Ian said, you need to lean the mixture above 5k, to have any chance of getting to 13.5. Even then it's going to take a while as the climb rate sucks as you get higher. If you dont know the procedure for leaning, set your FSX default to 'autolean' in the settings. They really needed the turbo version for FSX, but thats just a dream now. I have had the default 58 up to around 15K, so it will get there, but you need a LOT of patience to make it happen.

Thank you for the info. Just how Doug got there is a mystery! Is there a free jet somewhere with the Garmin installed? Alternatively maybe a mod for the plane.ThanksEdit :- Changed fuel_air_auto_mixture= 0 to 1 (not sure if this was strictly required) and enabled autolean. Used map to attain 13500 and now it holds it with no problem.

I am following Doug Horton's tutorial on 'Using the Garmin G1000 Glass Cockpit'.My problem is that it involves taking the Baron 58 (same in Mooney) to 13,500'Both these planes are nearly falling out of the sky by 10,000. I have full throttle, fine pitch etc. Can these aircraft achieve this height? If so, what am I doing wrong?Thanks

I had the stock FSX Lear 45 at FL450 today. I was replicating a real flight I found at Flight Aware. I took off with 75 percent fuel and I dumped two passengers leaving me with Pilot, Copilot and two remaining passengers. But even with this weight saving effort, when I got to about FL400, I was climbing at only about 500 ft/min and finally struggled my way up to FL450. (And incidentally, the real Lear was climbing at only 600 ft/min for the last few thousand feet). But eliminating weight from the plane (as much fuel as you can, passengers) will help.