Is it me or somethings wrong with the a330

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I tried to do a flight from manila to damman and as i was climbing putting on normal stuff for takeoff the plane out of no where lost speed and as i tried to gain it it atalled and crashed 29000 ft so tell me if im doing something wrong or there is actually something wrong with it

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The A330 is rather underpowered - it can’t climb that quickly, particularly at high altitudes.

What vertical speed were you going?

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try using these flight profiles, maybe? due to gravity you may need to reduce your vertical speed at higher altitudes so you won’t lose forward speed. also, if you’re using SimBrief, you should be able to look at the recommended climb profiles.

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I was going over 281

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I will try that but right now im using the a350 and imma try to do that

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You should use trim with A333/339s i normally use 40-50% trim because they struggle to climb
The A339 in particular

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Trim doesn’t affect potential climb rate. Trimming up to get the nose higher is unsustainable and may eventually lead to a stall.

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Can’t climb fast when heavy. Above like FL240 you should probably be 1500 FPM max and above 280 1000 or even 800 max depending on how heavy.

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Irrespective of weight and altitude (both of which are very relevant), your primary piloting task is to maintain sufficient forward speed for flight (which in practice means keeping the AoA from growing beyond a stable flyable range: angle between nose and FPV can’t grow too high).

Any climb rate that deteriorates your ability to maintain adequate forward speed is too high.

At some combination of weight and altitude, that climb rate shrinks all the way down to zero.

Don’t fly higher than that altitude. And as you push closer toward that altitude, keep cutting your climb rate to keep forward speed healthy.

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Next time i just wont try to force the nose up to high and to make a decent trimed plane

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While the A330 is a weak climber (maybe IRL too), this is a “user error.” You should almost never be aiming for a certain vertical speed when climbing. You should maintain a constant thrust and pitch for whatever the target speed is for the phase of the climb and the vertical speed is whatever it is. But you can use the vertical speed mode to control pitch by proxy.

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Ever since i started using trim i have not stslled whatsoever with fuel 102% btw.
But yes even the A333 struggles to ckimb above 24 k feet it starts losing speed slowly

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