Turbulence behaviour in real weather
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Glad to see the jerks are gone. But i'll be damned, it now behaves strange over mountains with real weather. With weird large attitude changes.
The nose will drop signiffically but the VS rise quite drasticly, then for the nose to rise a fair deal and then the VS go down even on the medium setting for turbulence.Flew over florida last night and the VS just kept going from like -2000 to +2000f/m (with pauses at various other VS speeds). Granted it was pretty windy.
Part is MFS and how wind works but neither the 310, Kodiak, 337, and others react this violently, not even the Zenith and Kitfox, but those are supposed to be tossed around pretty easy.
Really irritating, fly over water it's great, hit some land and it's like driving on a road full of gigantic potholes at. And again the Arrow series seem to take it the worst.
I am just curious, at what weather and landcape do these planes get tested in house?
Weather presets that have less variable weather over pretty smooth countryside? Or in live, more gusty conditions over mountainous regions?
I am just curious, if i am the only one with this?
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Yup, exactly what I've been experiencing in 8kts winds. Add quite insensitive pitch control (with linear sensitivity curves) and it's really a chore to fly.
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@cgnoorloos I haven't flown the arrows recently, but what you're describing sounds like updrafts/downdrafts due to thermals. I've noticed that thermals in MSFS are much more pronounced over land than water. In the 310R, flying over land during the daytime feels kind of like driving over steep, hilly terrain. I'm constantly pushing and pulling the yoke to maintain altitude. Since the arrows seem to have less elevator authority than the 310R, I can only imagine how bad it is in the arrows.
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There is a ditch at the end of Bidford Gliding Centre furthest from the main road. I have flown in and out of there in real life in both gliders and powered. In MSFS, the addon for Bidford has this ditch and every time you fly over it you get bumped up and down. Didn't have that happen once in real life.
I don't think the atmospheric interaction with the aircraft is overdone. I do, however, think that there is too much in the way of extreme updrafts from minor geographical features and that these go to a considerable height. Perhaps that is a part of the problem?