All short of giving up, what am I doing wrong?I've been feeling guilty lately of only flying high powered planes, so I'm forcing myself to learn and love the Cessna 172 being inspired by the new RealAir version.My problem is I never climb fast enough. After say 4000 feet I can't get that little lawnmower engine to give me even 5% vertical. I play with the mixture and have learned to keep max rpm's, but using WeatherCenter and full realism, all that gusting around and even when it's not so bad I stall alot and have a really hard time keeping the nose up.The ATC is like a broken record telling me to expidite the climb, and if it was real life I'd scream them into submission, but here I have to endure the message every 60 seconds. It's taking almost all the enjoyment away.Any help will earn you great admiration. Will trade info for one or both of my nephews, especially the one that decides I need to reboot midflight.Thanks in advance.

>>The ATC is like a broken record telling me to expidite the>climb, and if it was real life I'd scream them into>submission, but here I have to endure the message every 60>seconds. It's taking almost all the enjoyment away.>In real life, you might not be allowed certain departures if the airplane isn't capable of a specified climb rate. But then on hot days above 4000' msl, real life Cessna 172's aren't that good in climb performance anyway; especially with a passenger or two. However, the SP is "somewhat" noticeably better than the R and previous models.But at least keep leaning the mixture as you climb.L.Adamson

Hmmm, not aure what to say, other than maybe retune your radio freq. to tune them out, hehe.Jim

Maybe your exopectations are too great. I soloed a real 172 40 years ago at 5200' (Douglas Wyoming). It would climb 400' per minute or so with no problem with two in the front seat to maybe 8500', then 250 to 300FPM. I have roughly the same luck with the 172s provided on MSFS 02 and 04. Keep your airspeed up, and don't try to exceed 400ft/min and you should do OK.Richard