Not that excellent web-book by John Denker but rather by using CTRL-M in X-Plane10...

 

It is amusing, and if you get out and use i.e. SHIFT-8 for chase view, you'll be able to visualise the various lift forces, wind vectors, drags, around your aircraft.

 

In MS FLIGHT I really appreciated being able to see the control surfaces move when flying hands-off under turbulent situations. I believe this was at least not visible in previous versions of MSFS. Well, I had to check it in X-Plane10, and, there it is too :-)

 

If you take, say, your Cessna for a bumpy ride under turbulence or shear, showing your control command deflections as well as your control surface deflections through the Data Output will enable you to "see" those ailerons, rudder, elevator being shaked around by the forces from the turbulent air mass around the aircraft. You can also check it from an outside view, preferably zooming on the ailerons/rudder/elevator to better watch those effects.

 

The only difference from MS FLIGHT is that in the cockpit your yoke and rudder pedals will stay still, while in MS FLIGHT they do move according to the corresponding control surfaces they control... A detail that would be nice to have in X-Plane10 too :-)

On a follow up to the previous message I should add that observing the force fields is really a good insight to the level of detail X-Plane10 uses in it's flight dynamics model.

 

You can easilly understand that indeed it models even the effects of the spiraling slipstream on a prop aircraft, up to the asymmetric way it hits different surfaces of the aircraft, varying with engine power and/or prop RPM, as well as with attitude.

 

CTRL-M and then SHIFT-8 for a chase view are probably your best options to visualize the force fields and other available information. Each CTRL-M shows a different set of parameters.

 

Try it! ;-)