Hi all - looking for some help and found no activity on COWS Discord. I have been trying to fly the DA42 - which I love already - out of the hundred or so aircraft this one never flies straight and smooth, ever. It always feels like I have continuous mid level turbulence i have to fly through. AP…

Meant to add recent update also didn’t seem to fix. Really weird - comparing it to 310R or Dukes the DA42 bounces like a juice blender… Cannot be like real life.

We used weights and arms of the individual components (wings, tails, fuel tanks, engines, etc) to calculate the aircraft’s inertia + some slight corrections for spins as FS is a little weird with that stuff. Additionally the autopilot roll servo is custom and not using the default over corrective s…

Hi and thanks for the reply. I am using Spad and have worked through that as well - everything seems to be fine regarding controls. It may just be the fidelity of how the plane works that is letting me feel the turbulence, but if I had to ride in this in real life, I wouldn’t. Might just be perso…

Also I removed all the additional fake damping/stability/smoothing that is added by default. There was a really old thread, i wonder if i can find it.

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Wow thank you for that information! I am going to take a look at the DA42 and see how it compares to say the 310R or 414. Right now the DA42 is too wild and bumpy to fly nicely.

Its turbocharged, you can climb above the turbulence

I havent tried the DA42 in su4 yet, but i’ve definitely had many smooth flights and some of my most turbulent in the DA42.. and probably the worst one got caught on video- coming down a descent in some gusty live weather over the desert somewhere really tossed me around. it’s fun though!

Jeez thats crazy, but also looks fun. One thing that FS cant really do: The control surfaces have counterweights that oppose acceleration. Well, I could implement something like that, but that mess more things than it would improve. Also when we hit turbulence like that we slow down to reduce the …

This is kind of what’s its like to taxi the diamonds, the stick moves left and right as the plane rolls right and left.

COWS DA42 Bucking like continual turbulence 100% of time

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MrTommymxr December 9, 2025, 3:20pm 7

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