http://www.eaavideo.org/video.aspx?v=2274677932001

 

Everything you ever wanted to know about leaning, and more.  :rolleyes:

Hi Guys

 

I would like to find out if anyone have experience this in a DC3, both real life and FSX.

 

I was climbing with a tail wind of 40 knots to 18000 ft, ground speed at 200 knots, Vspeed at 300. Was feeling really happy with this as you seldom get this kind of ground speed.

 

But the engines suddenly went into idle when approaching 18000ft, and they wont go back to max power at all. So I have to decend...(note:all deicing were on)

 

When I decended to about 12500ft both engine start to come alive and slowly reaching max power. So now I am cruising at 14000ft. Still wind aided and Ground speed at 198knots. Pretty nice!

 

My question is : What have I done wrong? Was the Vspeed of 300 too much? Does this happen only in FSX or this could happen to a Real DC3 in the real world?

 

Note : I did observe a changed in the tail wind  moments after the sudden power lost.

 

I experienced the same problem many times with other prop aircraft that was rated up to 24000 ft. Couldn't figure out why plane lost power passing 18000 and would not get power back until below 12000.

 

I was flying the Duke B60 v2 from Fairbanks to Anchorage and it happened again. So turned on the fuel heater switches and that allowed me to regain power and climb to 24000. But some pay ware aircraft aren't modeled with fuel heaters, so the only way I could stop the loss of power was to stop icing all together in FSUIPC. Now I'm able to fly my prop above 18000 without losing power all of a sudden.

 

Hope this helps

http://www.eaavideo.org/video.aspx?v=2274677932001

 

Everything you ever wanted to know about leaning, and more.  :rolleyes:

Great video, thanks!

 

 

so the only way I could stop the loss of power was to stop icing all together in FSUIPC

 

My icing was never turned on in Fsuipc as i am using opusfsx.