Rough running in this sim, for me, is the point at which the engine sound becomes weaker. I don't have to wait until it shuts off to start enriching again.

 

as there is no penalty for getting it wrong, all I am doing is leaning for best performance at cruise and then a tiny bit rich of that point.very unscientific but it mimics the procedures enough to keep things honest.

Ooooooookay, let's bring this back to Flight. This is the Flight forum after all. All the interesting posts about real world procedures (which are all above my head and I suppose that goes for 99% of the Flight users) are fine and all but utterly useless when it comes to Flight. RoboRay tried to introduce a method that could work in Flight: I wonder if the other guys that clearly know a lot more about it then I do could tell us how to lean in Flight... so NOT in the real world, but in Flight!

 

The thing is: I can't find a method for leaning that can be used in all available airplanes in Flight. The instruments needed aren't there and, as RoboRay already said, it's useless listening to the sound of the engine because that sound doesn't change until you get below mixture at 20% where you are on the edge of shutting things down. In FSX I had no problem leaning the mixture at ALL but in Flight I have it at auto-mixture right now...

 

So all you who have posted here with long and technical stories: tell me how to LEAN IN FLIGHT! RoboTay posted a method which isn't er... approved of by everyone so... tell me your way of leaning in Flight! And please do not repeat real world procedures that won't work in Flight: we've been there.

So all you who have posted here with long and technical stories: tell me how to LEAN IN FLIGHT! RoboTay posted a method which isn't er... approved of by everyone so... tell me your way of leaning in Flight! And please do not repeat real world procedures that won't work in Flight: we've been there.

 

Lol, no real world from me as I have never flown a plane in the real world - and probably never will.

 

Ok so umm, here is what I do:

I have the mixture control assigned to a slider on my throttle.

When I get to cruising, I move that mixture control back to lean - slowly.

Used to - I would listen to where it would start to starve and shut down, then move it forward a little to be a little rich of peak I guess.

After a tip by RoboRay in another thread, I started to monitor the fuel flow, by placing the cursor over the appropriate dial in the Maule and watching it. When it gets to a point that it starts dropping off rapidly, rather than gradually, I then move the slider back in the rich direction slightly from that point.

I typically fly around 3500-4000 ft, and find that point in the mixture for me, ends up somewhere around say 13-14 gph.

 

Either method would probably work find, obviously the goal at least for me, is to run leaner and get at least closer to peak performance/fuel mileage.

I am sure I would be fine with auto mixture, but after a couple of weeks with Flight back when I first got it,I took it off automixture so I could control it, and it just adds that little bit more of immersion for me, along with prop pitch.

 

I know we are in effect trying to simulate the real act of flying with these sims - but for me personally, I could care less how close or not, I may be performing this function with what goes on in the real world. I just want to know how to do it , that works best for me, in the sim itself.