When you happen to fly into IMC and you know the cloudlayer below is high enough above terrain you can do the following:
Power to idle (carb heat on), full flaps, trim all the way up (trimwheel down). Hands of the yoke and wait. The aircraft is stable and a C172 will go into a low speed left descending shallow bank turn. You can fly hands off and wait until the aircraft gets out below the clouds. This way you will not kill yourself if you are not capable of flying in IMC.
Now I tried this in MSFS but boy… it behaves completely erratic and is so far away from real that I had to laugh. Only after seconds the aircraft becomes uncontrolable. This got to be fixed.
None of the default flight models are accurate. What you are describing is such a specific case that it would require a way more accurate FM than you are ever going to get from MSFS.
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this might improve once the new prop physics are added into the other aircraft, and the slipstream affects the airframe, notably the rudder.
Check it on the C152 and see if it’s any better.
Just tried. The C152 is not correctly modelled as well. After setting everything up the aircraft flips over to the left and goes into a spiral dive.
In real life it would stabalize itself.
I also noticed, that the yoke seems to be just locked into it´s last position and does not move according to forces acting on the controlsurfaces while turning loose without pilot´s intervention. This would explain why it is not stabalizing itself. Instead, the last position of the yoke being fixed hinders any natural stabalizing effect. Normally the yoke would move to the right but as it cannot the physics are the same like going into a controlled spin by stalling the wing by a left aileron input.
While it is irritating for a flight simulator not having implemented this absolute basic aerodynamic model of a free floating yoke, the introduction of force feedback would enforce this realism. I now hope Asobo will introduce force feedback soon even I do not own such a device.
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You are correct. Aerodynamic reactive forces are not modelled on the control surfaces at all.