The effects are generally OK. But I get more turbulence in sim then I did in real life flying.
In real life, over water was generally smooth. I would often use that to give my passenger a bit of relief from bumps. In sim that hasn’t worked yet.
In the sim, over coast and inland it pretty much always has light turbulence, even on stable weather days.
In sim it seems to almost always be like the afternoon of a 35c day.
So, I agree it is too often. Active Sky does a better job. I should try experimenting with seasons to see what that does. FS doesn’t do well with the southern hemisphere in general.
I wouldn’t be surprised by turbulence around mountains however. So as written and without any details, I don’t think the OP holds much water.
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The Turbulence option I am referring to, introduced in a past SU, do not disable the turbulence but lower the effects (in free flight). You can choose between 3 levels: realistic/medium/low
Use this website to check wind and turbulence data in your flight area when you’re planning. I looked at it for my last flight and found it to be pretty accurate at all altitudes for real weather. Aviation Weather Center
Latest version here also, subscribed to beta, and still the ““““““Realistic””””” turbulence is REALLY ridiculus.
8~10kts wind with clear weather make e.g. Cessna C172 so bumpy and uncontrollable like you enter into a tornado! even the glider tow plane crashed while lifted me off the runway. for laughs…..
Can’t imagine what the devs were thinking while they developed the ““““realistic””””” setting in turbulence.
Don’t they test it at all before they release it?
Tried Medium and Low but there is no turbulence at all in these settings. With no turbulence is NOT a sim, its like an arcade game.
i note that MS/Asobo marked “excessive turbulence” as “fixed” back in sim update 2.
@flightdeck2sim is a real-world 737 line-training captain with 15 years and thousands of hours on type. in this video, posted yesterday, he comments on the “realistic turbulence” setting in MSFS 2024’s current live build (sim update 3).
… the “realistic” setting is the most unrealistic level of turbulence you can get. there’s all sorts of weird yawing motion [where] the aircraft just yaws uncontrollably. it’s the most unrealistic turbulence setting.
he continues at 51:34:
… [either you choose] “realistic”, which is completely unrealistic, or you select low or medium where there seems to be no turbulence from clouds at all … clouds don’t cause turbulence in MSFS, whereas obviously in reality they do.
at 1:44:14 he says:
… they still haven’t fixed the “realistic” turbulence, i’m afraid. i remember having to set it to low/medium years ago in MSFS 2020 … [i] can’t believe it’s still the case to this day in MSFS 2024 … out of curiosity earlier I thought i’d try the “realistic” option … [and] the aircraft just yaws uncontrollably. they should literally rename it “unrealistic”, honestly … [it would be] easier to rename it than to fix it – they just need to add “un”.
I just watched a video from A330driver (dated May-25) and he was saying that in FS2024 the realistic turbulence setting has been calmed down significantly from how massively unrealistic it is in 2020. I might give it another look at for fun and see
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