I’ve been playing MSFS 2024 in Xcloud. I have started the career mode and flown the C172 ‘a little bit’. And I found that C172 floats too much, in my opinion. I haven’t flown this aircraft in real life. But I even had a very weird situation in which, there was a wind of 20kts, I tried to descend, so I cut the throttle to 0%. The aircraft keeps CLIMBING, I keep the throttle at 0%.
I try to trim the aircraft to 9-10 degrees (nose down), that’s 50% of nose down trim. I usually can mantain altitude with this trimming at 105kts more or less. So, what has happened? My C172, instead of flying like a GA aircraft, it felt more like a glider. Probably there was some thermals that kept me climbing. However, when did C172 become so sensitive to thermals?
If I speak of other flights, I’ve always felt that the only thing I needed to glide like an albatros was to trim the aircraft nose up, no flaps and trim my Cessna to fly at 55kts and it will glide a lot, even shutting the engine would not be a problem to glide.