Hiya

 

In what seems to be a vain attempt to find something that replicates turbulence well, my latest purchase is the Accu Feel add on by A2A.

 

I have REX Essentials and FS Global Real Weather as my weather engines, the latter being the better imo!

 

Both of the above suggest turning Turbulence off in FSX

 

My test is the standard Cessna, at Gatwick on Feb 14th Weather as that was pretty damn bad !!

 

Levelled off at 2500ft and was getting bits and bobs of turbulence, expected more at 60+knts !!!

 

I then turned ON accu feel and had the settings for turbulence to 95% on all apart from clear air as I hear there is an issue with that.

There was absolutely no difference at all !! I can hear Accu feel is working from the sounds it is making, but there is no extra feeling to the turbulence.

 

I toggled between on and off, but still nothing.

 

I have the free USipc

Any ideas as this just seems a waste of money and time for a little bit of wheel screeching and wind noise!

 

I must be doing something wrong?

 

Thanks for any help

 

Paul

Accufeel v2 reads turbulence only from FSX. Rest is placebo.

 

This is at least the outcome of my tests with ASN.

So you're saying that if FSX turbulence is turned off, then Accu feel has no effect with turbulence?

 

I would tend to agree with that based on what I have seen and I feel A little cheated to be honest unless someone can show me a way to change that.

 

I bought it for the turbulence not the sounds.

 

:-(

 

Paul

I'm one of those that never got Accufeel turbulence working.  Tried everything, verified again and again that everything was set up on my system exactly as it should be, FSX turbulence Enabled, nothing being overidden by FSUIPC, and the rest;  but just never saw any turbulence enhancement whatsoever, never even heard the sounds that are supposed to be produced when the plane was visibly being kicked around.  Others reported that the extra turbulence enhancement was so strong as to make their airplane unmanigeable, but I never saw anything like that.  That was weird, because everything else about Accufeel is and was working just fine.

 

Nowadays though, with the modern weather engines doing what they do, I feel no need to get an extra 'kick' effect on the airplane above and beyond what the weather engine is already providing.  It would just be too much.  I happen to use ASN, and it bounces the plane around quite sufficiently and believably, and that's even with Enhanced Turbulence turned OFF, which in and of itself delivers an extra kick, probably too much.   The way I see it, Accufeel is a very inexpensive program, and if it works to add in a few extra squeeks or whooshing sounds on planes that could use a little sound enhancement, then it's been worth it.  Even if I had gotten the turbulence effects to work, I would have disabled them now anyway.

You're probably right and I believe I have just bought something based on hype from a few people!

 

oh well, as you say, it's not expensive, but I could of spent my money on something more worthwhile :-(

 

Would still be interested to hear anyone that has got it working though to see if we are actually missing out on something!

 

Thanks again

 

Paul

Just to clarify, Accu-Feel uses the actual aircraft movements to determine turbulence, then does a subtle modifier to it adding slight movements.  These are all real movements, not camera effects.  We tied it to the actual movements so Accu-Feel would be compatible with any real weather program that creates real turbulence.  Remember, Accu-Feel isn't going to rock your plane around, but rather it's an icing on the cake that is lacking from the air physics.  This was designed to augment turbulence, not create or replace a turbulence effect.  It blends in very well, so well you may not even be aware it's on.  This is all based on my own experience coming back from the airport and turning on the simulator, and "filling in" what is lacking in the sim from what I just experienced moments ago.

 

If you are not seeing any Accu-Feel turbulence effects yet hearing sounds, then it is likely either:

- The weather engine is not actually moving the plane but manipulating the camera too

- You may not be aware of the effects 

 

Scott,

In my case the thing is I see aircraft movement but hear no sounds.

Just to clarify, Accu-Feel uses the actual aircraft movements to determine turbulence, then does a subtle modifier to it adding slight movements.  These are all real movements, not camera effects.  We tied it to the actual movements so Accu-Feel would be compatible with any real weather program that creates real turbulence.  Remember, Accu-Feel isn't going to rock your plane around, but rather it's an icing on the cake that is lacking from the air physics.  This was designed to augment turbulence, not create or replace a turbulence effect.  It blends in very well, so well you may not even be aware it's on.  This is all based on my own experience coming back from the airport and turning on the simulator, and "filling in" what is lacking in the sim from what I just experienced moments ago.

 

If you are not seeing any Accu-Feel turbulence effects yet hearing sounds, then it is likely either:

- The weather engine is not actually moving the plane but manipulating the camera too

- You may not be aware of the effects 

 

Scott,

Thanks Scott!

 

Any chance of a "Heavy" version/update for Accu Feel V2?

ASN is moving the plane so it doesn't explain the problem I think. If I'm not aware it's working and in the meantime hear no difference when I turn it off than why would I need it in a first place

 

Same goes for accusim Cessna - accusim works fine but no cockpit rattles from ASN turbulence although aircrAft itself is moved all the ways. Something is wrong between those two sw. Default fsx turbulence and it's fixed. I'm wondering if it works with any wx engine