Not seeing a huge difference in the 152/172 or my Jabiru or Mooney.
The Caravan is more skitty and floats more.
Ignoring the numbers and flying by eye it seems like the caravan needs flaps on every landing now and is best coming in about 10 knots slower than the book says for flaps out, maybe 65 knots instead of 75 knots and gentle fly it to the runway rather than try and stall and drop. Definitely no 90 knot flapless landings even on bitumen, way too fast with the current FM even if it is what the POH recommends for no flaps
On the plus side, down around 50 knots you can toss it about like a Savage Cub or Shock Ultra
Definitely different. Less accurate? Well how long is a bit of string the old flight model was not particularly accurate either other than broadly matching the POH speeds.
A plane that Asobo have probably not changed to work with the new flight model.
This is one aspect, among many, that I’m unsure about. The two planes they did change are in the Standard edition, and are not protected. You can do what you like with them. The following are not, and are protected/encrypted:
You mention the Baron, and that is in the deluxe edition. It does not have a flight model file, but I can see that some of its core files were changed on the 16th:
At a guess I would say that file is wrapped up in that cfg.fsarchive file, and all three of these were changed on the 16th. So was it tweaked by Asobo to match the new flight model? I can’t say for sure.
The 172S does not handle as it did before, not as bad as the 208, but it does not perform the same. I have not tried the 172 G1000 to compare, and but I know it hasn’t been changed since December:
On what basis do you make this claim? Do you have access to the coding changes Asobo made? I’ll leave it to Asobo to address this, and hopefully they will do so soon. But after they do that, we expect that we will be reverting our change to the A32NX flight model.
In a future update, we hope to adjust our flight model to take advantage of the new capabilities. But these are two different items.
What I find hard to understand is that a company like Microsoft can let customers rant for days and days without providing any useful response. Ok, it’s fun for the community to discuss these things, it keeps us busy .
But in so many support forums for other products (many which are a lot smaller) I would already have gotten some meaningful answer from a support person or even a developer.
I couldn’t see anything on zendesk either but maybe that’s because I didn’t log the ticket.
They could make available a beta version for flight model testing that only worked with the Bing Data off, no multiplayer, no traffic, and weather presets.
This would allow us to provide feedback on the core flight model behavior without requiring a 2nd set of servers, while they work to stand up a set of beta servers to allow for a full Bets in the future.
It’s not that bad really and as @Yeti64 says there are plenty of quick fix mods out there for most planes that will tide us over until Asobo fix it properly. They acknowledged all the feedback a couple of days ago
Obviously we need a full Beta in the future but if setting up separate servers is somehow a barrier to that, it would at least be a temporary option to get a beta program started.
Maybe check out Aerosoft’s CRJ thread on their forum.
Their project lead, Mathijs Kok, has effectively said that they are supportive of the changes to the flight model, made by Asobo, and that they will be tuning their aircraft performance to adapt to those changes.
Maybe its the wheel drag? If you perform a proper X-wind landing you will touch on the upwind wheel first, maybe that wheel creates so much drag that the aircraft is yawing into the direction the wind is coming from without the yaw actually being induced by the wind? Just thinking out loud here…
Last night with the TBM, I managed to glide nearly the entire 6800 ft length of RWY12 at KOPF at 45-ish kts a couple of feet above the pavement while at zero power. I then powered up for a go-around.
Yeah, that’s just not right. How did this get past testing unnoticed?