The Citation Longitude Model 700 equipped with theGarmin GSX 500 Display is the absolute worst aircraft I have tried to fly.
It is almost uncontrollable and is impossible to land.
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Are you flying it in external view? This thread might explain your control issue Autopilot not working properly in External View there is a workaround in the comments near the end.
As someone who has at least 153 hours logged in it, the C700 is a great plane to fly so I’m pretty sure you’re just experiencing a bug.
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Thanks for this information, i was wondering what happend today.
Garmin don’t make a GSX 500 so confused as to what actual aircraft you mean here. I guess you mean the default Longitude. If so as already stated it flies just fine and is certainly not the worst aircraft in the sim. I’d suggest something like the Captainsim C-130 for that title although I don’t have it to be able to attest how bad it really is. But having no cockpit is a pretty low bar.
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I think their new balloon release might undercut that.
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Try this tutorial which is part 1 of 4. How to Fly the Longitude Part 1: APU and Engine Start | FMS Setup | MSFS 2020 - YouTube
The Longitude is an amazing airplane in MSFS ever since the WT team got their hands on it.
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Maybe they’ll be a cockpit in the balloon.
Just curious… What aircraft behaves well on your side?
From a personal perspective, I started with small single props with steam gauges and not even equiped with retractable gears, glass cockpits, let alone AP.
Only after I mastered that kind of aviation I stepped up the ladder… via twin props, turbo props, etc.
Using garmins can be very well helpful in bringing the plane from where you are to where you want to go but just like desktopcomputers they only follow the pilots inputs.
Happy 
Yes, a comparison aircraft would be useful I think. I very much doubt the Longitude is impossible to land.
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For me it’s the Got Gravel Monster NXCub (taildragger.) Practically uncontrollable on the ground.
Contrast that with the Got Gravel Vertigo, which is the epitome of fun.
The real comparison is the A2A Comanche 250. Spectacular. Worth every penny.
Every helicopter. Ridiculously impossible to fly and to control.
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I see people in helicopters most livestreams, and they don’t seem to be falling out of the sky. Perhaps they are using assistance?
Hm most likely. It seems to be impossible to fly a helicopter without various assistance and easy modes 
For me it is just the opposite. Fixed wing planes are boring (except the A2A Comanche), helicopters are so much more fun to fly!
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To land it is hard but you need to keep in the throttle until 10ft above the ground. Even just closing it after touch-down is better than closing it around 50ft.
Put in on the glideslope, aim for the threshold and look at the radar altimeter.
no assists
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Negative. Just practice, well calibrated controls and an insane amount of concentration!
I can land the Alouette III on a tiny alpine hut pad with full realism and live weather/no assists. Not saying it was easy. In fact the most demanding thing I’ve ever done in a flight sim.
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I’ve been flying the AzurPoly Fouga a lot lately. It’s the smoothest, most elegant flying experience among all the planes in my hanger. Ground handling is superb. The rudimentary autopilot added by the dev (since the plane doesn’t have one IRL) works well. VOR only - no GPS.
Flight characteristics are smooth as can be. She climbs well, trims well, and turns well. Landing the plane is a dream. The spoilers and flaps allow you to control speed and rate of descent like the plane knows what you want it to do. And the sound of those twin Turbomeca Marboré turbojet engines spooling up on the ground is just delicious.
Bonus points for making most of the controls easily bindable to my HC Alpha/Bravo in SPAD.
(But why oh why is lighting so difficult in so many planes? NAV lights, landing lights, cockpit lights etc. are sometimes just so hard to program in SPAD. And it seems like those should be the simplest things. The Fouga is no exception.)
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I have control of lights in every aircraft I fly. Don’t have the Fouga though. The only slightly hard part is figuring out what drives each light. Every aircraft is different but generally the external ones are pretty consistent. The internals are where they vary greatly.
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Helicopter controls themselvs are reasonably fine. Using assists is what indeed starts to create problems. However helicopter aerodynamics are still very poor. You can perform aerobatic rolls at low speeds with almost every available helicopter for instance.
I would recomend the following:
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Forget everything you know about fixed wing controls. Helicopters blades rotating axis are different and in addition to that they have two axis rotating in different directions.
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Understand well what each control surface does and what effect an increase or a reduction on it will cause, because you won´t see the same effects when changing those control surfaces in a fixed wing aircraft, even if they are similar in some cases (e.g: tailwheelers pedal adjustments needed upon tail wheel lifting). For instance, increasing collective for take off always requires pedal movements to compensate the created force and that pedal movement depends on the helicopter design (american vs european helicopters) as blades do not rotate in the same direction. Bell 407 and Cabri are therefore different during take off and you will need left pedal correction in Bell while right pedal correction in Cabri.
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Don´t ignore wind. Helicopters can land everywhere but you should still try to land and hover heading to wind when possible. Lateral winds can cause real problems. Wind may also hide some of the needed control surfaces corrections, making you think that they are not required. That´s true while wind exists, but if wind changes during a hover you need to adapt to the new wind conditions and maybe undercorrect or overcorrect. Practice with calm winds or no wind first using a weather present and always observe windsocks while flying with live weather. Don´t go live weather if you don´t know the existing wind conditions. Remember Cabri includes a yawstring as the one used by gliders so you can observe it.
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Set a low sensitivity near controls center. That allows you have more precise movements. Always move controls gently and don´t panic setting full stick, collective or pedals if you lose control. That will just make things worse.
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Anticipate to helicopter movements to be able to correct them in time. Your own control inputs will also need to be corrected because they will generate additional forces. Also take into account inertia as changes are not instant. Ignoring inertia will put you in an ascending loop of corrections resulting in your inputs as the main source for unstability, not the helicopter dynamics.
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Disable all assists. They may try to correct your own control inputs as well. It´s better to learn without assists. Helicopters in game don´t need them at all.
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Practice always from cockpit view. External view disables your relative point of view regarding the nose. Observing nose movements relative to terrain is one of the best visual references you have while hovering. From cockpit view you can quickly notice any small movement and correct it properly.
Cheers
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