After a few first flights in MS 2024 one thing I am getting my head around is the apparent increase in sensitivity to wind and aircraft choppiness in the air, at least in the Cessnas.
Is it just me?
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It is true, I find it extremely bumpy as well.
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Some flights are bumpy and some aren’t. Today was smooth flying around the places I was in around Aus today.
I think yaw is overdone but I’m used to bumpy flying from when I owned a light aircraft so it doesn’t bother me too much as long as we can reduce it in realistic ways. And the sim usually allows that ok.
Active Sky supports 2024 now so I’ll have to check how it’s turbulence compares tomorrow.
FYI, under Settings > Assistances > Realism, there is the “Turbulence” setting which you can set to “Low” to reduce this effect in the sim.
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Very bumpy at “medium” the Cessna, XCub, and Albatross were all being subjected to 1000fpm updrafts in ~10 knot surface winds. The latter wasn’t even over an area of orographic or convective lift (it should have been all downdraft, if anything).
I reduced it to “low” and it seems to be much more realistic for the stated winds.
Now, if the surface winds were gusting > 15-25 knots or an AIRMET for mod turb aloft or LLWS was out (they were not at the time), I’d expect to see what I had with “medium.” Hopefully we’ll still get that on “low,” but only in the appropriate conditions.
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Try flying in VR with the “Realistic” turbulence on. Utterly nausea inducing.
Well, depending on conditions…
I’ve made myself green in the real plane plenty of times. There’s a reason I always do unusual attitude recovery near the end of a flight. 
My sim flight career has only started, playing 2020 for a bit and now on 2024.
The “first flight” with passengers in career mode was so bumpy I don’t know how we stayed in the sky, it was a rollercoaster. I was not expecting it! 
This is the same issue from 2020. The only difference was in 2020 everyone set it to medium to get realistic turbulence. Ironically, the realistic setting is, and has been, the least realistic setting. The issue in 2024 is that this setting is locked to realistic in career, the least realistic setting, as previously mentioned.
If they didn’t fix this in 2020, I don’t think they will fix it in 2024, the only hope we have is they unlock this setting in career.
This is a known issue: Wind and turbulence in the Career Mode is ridiculous
Moved to User Support Hub User Support Hub > Weather & Live Weather that is more appropriare.
It’s awful. The realistic setting might as well be microburst mode.
Could Asobo address this with Sim Beta 2? I have a motion platform and have tried every sort of combination of filters. But no matter what combination of filters I try, it doesn’t provide a realistic experience. I’m forced to choose between two extremes…1. Turn the settings to a level that make landings feel realistic (especially in heave) but then experience turbulence so violent that it would break my motion platform (and my neck) if activated. Or 2. Turn the filters down to a setting that turbulence feels realistic but landings can no longer be felt. It’s so benign it’s unenjoyable.
Sometimes turbulence sets up an oscillation either in the yaw or heave direction that’s so extreme that it moves all planes in ways no real aircraft would ever behave in real life. (I’m a pilot so I should know).
Could Asobo create a slider on the realistic setting that attaches a scaler to the acceleration outputs in turbulence so we can tune-down the acceleration values in the air to something realistic for our motion platforms? That way we can have a realistic experience on landing forces and still be able to practice flying in turbulent air without injuring ourselves or ruining our motion platforms.