How to make plane tail side ways when parked at gate?

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I’ve seen some msfs2020 videos where the plane is parked at gate and it’s tail is turned left or right and the elevators are facing up or down like this

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I think that makes the sim a bit more realastic, so does anyone know how to do this on Xbox?

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Alright I’ll post my post over there, thank you.

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Thanks. I moved it already. I’ll delete these posts in a few minutes so they don’t distract from your thread.

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As far as I understand, in real life this is because there is no hydraulic pressure to those control surfaces when the aircraft is shut down, so they just move with the wind and gravity. I’m honestly not sure if the sim replicates this with airliners, or if some simmers are intentionally pulling their yoke back and applying full rudder for screenshots, or in videos potentially by using drone mode and hitting “c” to lock their controls after moving them into position. Hopefully someone has a better answer for you, but I essentially never fly airliners so I’ve never noticed this.

Edit to add: It’s very possible that some of the nicer payware airliners do this if the default don’t.

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I think the FBW A320 has this modeled. Control surfaces are unpowered and droop from weight and move with wind. Once hydraulics are up, you will see them move to their neutral position.

One of many little things those devs have done with their plane.

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This video may help give some background:

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X-Plane certainly simulates control surfaces moving with the wind, but I’m reasonably sure MSFS doesn’t no matter how strong the wind is.

I shot a video of this when XP12 had just been released, for two reasons. One was to illustrate the effect, and another was to show those users complaining about how the plane moves in turbulence in MSFS, that X-Plane has just as many problems as far as I can see.

That’s not me moving the controls, it’s the wind.

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Ok so it’s plane specific and the only planes that would even be able to do this need to have a functional hydraulic system. So in term of airliners A310, ATR, AN225, BAE146, and Concorde (maybe) are the only airliners that currently have this system modeled. If you spawn cold and dark you will see you have no control over the flight surfaces.

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I see that all the time in the sim when I load a flight and after parking and shutting down the aircraft you must turn off hydraulics