Having real difficulty taking off (and even worse landing) when there’s any kind of wind in small GA aircraft. I don’t fly airliners. 12kt crosswind on takeoff and I’m having to use full right rudder to try and stay centred…to the extent that the right wing starts to drop toward the ground and I nearly tip the aircraft over.
Just wondering is this commonplace for everyone else or am I doing something wrong?
I’ve disabled any other input for the rudders other than my pedals and have tried with both curves and without.
Try this…
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I assume you are also aileron into the wind, to stop the upwind wing from rising?
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I noticed this as well, even taxiing the 172 will flip on it’s side even with proper aileron positions.
If you use the search function you’ll see hundreds of posts explaining this problem.
Thanks for that…will try it out 
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Have only tried a couple of crosswind takeoffs but that made such a difference! In all my years of flight simming, I’ve never seen that diagram before but it makes such simple sense. Thanks again.
[Presumaby use the same on touch down?]
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Yes, taxi as well. But there’s a catch that’s not stated: as you pick up airspeed and controls become more effective, you should be rolling out the crosswind inputs. I wouldn’t use the elevator inputs on takeoff, either, just ailerons, elevator for taxi (and different with tailwheel aircraft altogether).
Takeoff - start with full aileron input and smoothly roll them out until about rotation speed - you might still have a little deflection as you lift off.
Landing - reverse of that.
Look up left-turning tendencies and weathervane effect for the reasons why we have to use so much right rudder. Here’s a post I made explaining them. The ailerons are used to keep the wing from rising as well as the adverse yaw assists with the weathervane effect. Keep in mind the physics of the sim do not completely emulate this realistically, there’s still some work to do.
Welcome to the wacky world of realistic simming! 
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