After some hardware complications, I installed FSX and P3D, each on a separate hard drive. For some reason neither simulation will recognize the realism settings. No matter whether the Piper J-3 or Cessna 172's realism sliders are at EASY, MEDIUM, or HARD, they fly like they are set at easy. They don't pull to the side during take off, nothing. Interestingly, the fsx.cfg and Prepar3D.cfg files show that the realism settings are being changed. FSX example of my cfg file:

 

[REALISM]

PFactor=1.000000

Torque=1.000000

GyroEffect=1.000000

CrashTolerance=1.000000

General=1.000000

UnlimitedFuel=False

TrueAirspeed=False

AutoCoord=True

RealMixture=True

StressDamage=True

GEffect=True

ManualLights=True

GyroDrift=True

CrashWithDyn=True

CrashDetection=True

AutoTrim=False

AllowEngineDamage=True

 

Any ideas as to what's going on?

Totally missed that Auto Rudder was checked, and unchecking that fixed it!