There is some crazy turbulence today between Revelstoke and Golden. I first experienced it doing a flight from Kamloops to Calgary in a citation, then I went back starting in Revelstoke with the Baron G58 for takeoff/landing experience. Not sure if its always like this, but worth flying it you want to experience turbulence.
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That can be a pretty rough area over those mountains. I made a crossing with the TBM a while back and encountered some seriously bad trubulence in the Revelstoke area as well. I made it. Not sure how, as I fully expected my TBM to break up. Somehow it made it.
Had I been in a real plane, I would have been soiling my drawers for sure…
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Last night from a little west of Calgary descending into KSEA in the 78X was probably the craziest turbulence I’ve experienced in this sim. Was really cool and honestly a little unnerving, haha.
You can disable aircraft stress damage in the assistance settings.
Seattle was like that for the entire weekend, was doing some IFR flights there and really enjoyed being able to spot the runway lights just above the minima. Today I flew from SEA to HLN and experienced the same. Great to see the wing forces simulation at work, the wings were flexing differently from each other. The seat belt sign had to be left on for most of the flight 
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Thanks for the heads up - I just climbed to FL 290 out of Revelstoke and it’s pretty intense at times. Skyvector doesn’t seem to cover Canada with SIGMETS but S of the border it has turbulence warnings for the entire PNW area. I guess the only way to stop a flightsim guy from finding this “nice” is a proper motion platform. 
Yeah but then what fun is that ? ;p
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Well I would suggest reaching the destination is more fun than losing the aircraft and wasting time on a flight that never gets there. You can have too much realism in a simulator that is designed to entertain in my opinion. I dont want flat tyres for example.
Yeah but then what fun is that ? ;p
Slightly more fun than having the plane you’ve spent 30 minutes setting up from cold and dark crash and burn when it rolls over a pebble on the runway.
But say you clip something and damage a wheel, dont you want to know if you’re man enough to still get the plane on the ground in one piece by using your superior piloting skills? I know I sure would. Same with flying say the 152 in winds that are way to strong for the plane to be in the air. I had one instance where the head winds were so strong, the plane was almost standing still when I managed to get it airborne … Ahhh good times ;p
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No I dont have any superior piloting skills at the moment.
I guess once you have mastered the basics then sure, I can absolutely see the appeal of upping the realism to the degree that you enjoy but at the stage I am at, its a bit too much realism.
It’s fun if the stress damage is actually accurately modeled in the sim. But when the stress and damage happen so randomly and out of the blue without any reason, there’s really no fun when you spent 30 minutes setting up the aircraft, only for it shows a crashed message because of a bug in the stress and crash damage coding. It’s embarrasing when you livestream all your flights everyday and it occurs half the time.
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