I’m curious, is anyone having the same ( ‘extreme’ ) experiences described throughout this thread when flying any particular 3rd-party aircraft?
If so, it would interesting to hear which ones. (See what similarities, if any, they may hold to one another.)
My 'overall' experience with default aircraft around this topic;
I honestly cannot remember the last time I flew a default aircraft, so when jumping into the C152 to record those videos the other day, it really stood out to me how twitchy/light it felt! Especially when comparing to how I remember it being when I last flew it. (That was quite a fair while ago! I could be misremembering.)
I jumped into a few other defaults and had somewhat similar experiences. Some better than others though. The twitchiness of some did make them seemingly harder to control in many conditions.
(i.e. Didn’t respond/react in a way I might expect in those conditions/phases of flight - both aircraft and myself - I found it was very easy to over-correct with only the smallest of input.)
This is just what I personally noticed about them around this particular topic with my very quick flights. I’m not saying the default aircraft are bad, or anything of the like by any means! 
Condensed below is some observations/experiences on the topic; of a few add-on light aircraft I tend to find myself in.
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Firstly, I mostly fly locations where conditions tend to fall in-line, are suitable, for which aircraft I may be flying, especially in these lighter birds - also, I mainly fly in areas I know.
- This is purely my own experiences flying these within SU10.
- These are the only Light Aircraft/GA I’ve taken to the skies in with SU10.
In no particular order:
Iris Jabiru - The first aircraft I ever flew was a J160 (back at the ripe age of 12 I first got behind the controls of one). It has also been the (powered)aircraft I’ve spent the most time in, too. Being so small, this little thing really gets tossed and bumped around IRL! In the sim I’m bumped and tossed around about as much as I would expect to be. (I very rarely fly this in sim these days though - the sim has changed a lot since this aircraft released - still flys relatively like the real thing.)
SWS Zenith - Also a very light aircraft, I find it handles weather quite well considering it’s size. Bumped around like I’d imagine I’d be, especially with it’s purpose of bush flying
Ant’s Drifter - As an ultralight it is quite susceptible to weather… Though, I really enjoy putting around in this little bird, even more now amongst the new alive live weather!
JF Arrow - I’ve only been up in a Cherokee 180 and also a Warrior, a couple of times IRL (I don’t own the JF Warrior though). The Arrow does seem to ‘feel’ how I’d expect(imagine) one might.
Overall on the turbulence front, I can’t say I’ve really experienced too much more than light turbulence in any of these (or larger aircraft like: DC-6, BAe146, etc.), even when in much rougher conditions that are leaning toward the demonstrated limits of the aircraft. Of course, in those rougher conditions I am getting bumped about much more than something of, let’s call it: normal conditions, as to be expected.
Landing feels fine too with these, I don’t notice huge ground effect that seems to exist with the few default aircraft I flew.
They seem to have had some decent care taken in creation of their flight model; which must be a help in how it all feels overall. It’s possible this could be one factor in why I can’t say I’ve really experienced any true extremities with the turbulence.
[Putting aside the rough edges to be smoothed out as the weather engine progresses; - erratic changes, I assume is related to flying in and out of metar areas; - further refinement of “newly introduced” features such as gusts etc.]
FYI - I only fly gliders these days IRL. Cash flow made it difficult to afford the powered flight time to gain a PPL (I’ll get there eventually), so I quite quickly gravitated to soaring, was never going to give up the dream that easy. 
I’m also curious (+would enjoy hearing) if anyone has similar opinions, experiences, or not - to what I have experienced above.
Well done Asobo. The gusts feels amazing as they are right now.
