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Originally Posted by Blackdog_kt
Generally speaking, all piston aircraft checklists that i've seen specify rich mixture for high power settings.
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Leannig purpose to keep air fuel mixture to 1/15, when climbing, the less dense air means it comes to 1 of fuel for less than 15 of air in ratio, in other words, too rich of fuel, so less efficiency, some fuel is burnt meanlessly.
However as explained there's a temperature issue, generally, when the leaning is done manually, full power with rich mixture expect at very high altitude where some leaning may be needed.
When cruising one can lean further.
Except if the sim has a sort of bug, no full power should be done with lean but if one wants to shorten an engine's life. Maybe they'll model an engine failure due to incorrect leaning.
Obiously, a lot of fuel consumption reduction achieved at altitude in lean mixture, could be 20% less. I seem to remember the spit was giving 40 gph rich and 35 gph lean by 15'000 ft.