It’s been a while since I’ve posted. I recently updated to 2024. One of the things which is somewhat a continuation of 2020 is the level of accuracy of the simulator. One thing I’ve noticed is the unrealistic nature of the simulator. Things like navigation controls seem to not work at all realistically. I hae a logitech yoke/Rudder control and one thing I’ve found is the rudder does not behave in a realistic manner. Flying down a runway the aircraft many times veers off the runway and the rudders do nothing or very little, I would say in real life the rudder should have an absolute result. Has anybody seen this.
(This is just the first topic in this arena - will be asking more).
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Could you please provide some more details on how the navigation systems are not working for you, so that our forum community may be able to help?
What aircraft were you flying? Do you have any pilot assists on like auto rudder? What are you’re realism setting? Do you have a linear control curve for the rudder? I’ve noticed the opposite, the sim feels way better than 2020 did comparing to my actual flight experience
2024 has a habit of forgetting your Control settings. Check that the correct profile is set when you launch the sim. Mine, for example, would always be set back to None for the profile even though I had a profile created. I fixed this by deleting any profile I had and recreating them with Create New + Apply to All Aircraft and remapping. After that it would remember that “My default Rudder” was the correct profile to load each time.
It depends on the plane. It depends on the weather. It depends on your settings. It depends on your controllers. Try to control for each variable by using a default or trying a different option.
Try differential braking if the rudder is ineffective while on the ground. You probably need to cross control with opposite aileron if you’re “flying down a runway” and need to hold the centerline.
2024 is notorious for forgetting your settings. Also how you have your plane setup can make a lot of difference. I too had the same problems you are having with a 172 which I have actually flown in real life. It was far from what I remembered and it took me a while to dial in the correct settings. Best of luck!
BTW every plane is slightly different so “apply to all planes” may not be the best way to go…FWIW
Thanks for all the replies. My point is that the game design seems flawed. I really don’t think I should have to adjust the game controls to work with a specific aircraft. I think the game physics should take into account the aircraft and how it behaves. I.E. if I’m in a Cessna 172 I expect the rudders to behave as they would in a real aircraft and not have to fine tune the controls in the simulator to work the way I think they should work. That’s my rant on that.
I really have to admit I do not find this simulator realistic at all. It appears to not follow any standard physics rules and reacts very strangly. For instance - I was doing a charter flight in career mode in a company I setup. I had an hour flight I was doing in a Cessna 172. The flight in general was fine and appeared to behave properly. But when I got to the landing all of a sudden it appeared winds picked up. To the point the aircraft was being thrown all over the place. This occurred at the 500ft mark and I was expecting the aircraft to become more stable as I approached the ground. But what happened was that wind picked up (I assumne wind as I don’t know of anything else that would cause what had happened) and was impossible to land in fact when I got close - within 50 ft - a wind shot across and my plane was thrown to the side way off the runway and when I tried to get control another wind hit and flipped the plane over and I plowed into the ground.
Now my question. Is this realisitic. Is this how the game is suppose to work. I’ve flown dozens and dozens of flights in the 172 and this never happened. To be honest I felt like all of a sudden huricane level winds occurred.
Now I can’t say I’m an expert with the simulator and was wondering if this occurrs and you find landing to be extremely difficult can you request another landing site? I got the impression this was not possible as the game in career mode seems to get finiky when not following the designated path.
It’s impossible for Asobo to make the controls for all aircraft feel/behave the the same way with all control setups. Different rudder pedals will react differently with more or less control travel, different stiffness etc. Every game I’ve ever played on pc requires control tweaking to feel “right”. The rudder pedals in a 172 don’t feel the same as in a 747, there may be deadzones in the control feel, different steering serups will also feel different ie a cirrus behaves very differently on the ground than a 172
Go into settings and turn turbulence to low or medium. This is a known issue
Oh did they change this for career mode. I have not been playing in CM for a while. At the beginning you could not tweak turbulence.
Need to check at some point of time.
