22 hours ago, eslader said:

Over in p3d I can manually land the PMDG 747 smoothly and gracefully every time. I harbor no illusions that this means I could just hop into a real 747 and do the same thing. 

 

I agree with this, but... I am more an Airbus fan, and I learnt much about the A320 when I developed the Wilco Airbus Series. I know it is just a sim, some say it is a video game, but when I flew a professional full flight simulator, I could start it from cold & dark, taxi, take off, fly and land even in difficult conditions (engine failure). I didn't fly the real thing (unfortunately...) but these professional sims are close to the real aircraft. I think I would be able to do it in real life, probably because an A320 is easier to fly than a 747 😁

21 hours ago, sd_flyer said:

I have noticed some oddities. Aileron into the wind suppose to cure windcocking on the ground but instead turns airplane into wind even more 

Yeah, aileron into the wind ain't work. 

6 minutes ago, mtr75 said:

Yeah, aileron into the wind ain't work. 

You have to hold down the windward wing with aileron in order not to flip the plane down wind in a real plane. especially in a high wing light aircraft. 

You use rudder and brakes to control yaw, the desire of a plane to turn into the wind. Sometimes it helps, especially on tail draggers, to gun the throttle to create airflow by the rudder for added rudder effect.

Set up high wind at an airport and taxi around a bit to see how the model behaves, especially in gusty wind. Try taxing a Cub around in a circle with 20 mph wind. With higher wind gusts the plane can flip over sideways or even on its nose if elevator, ailerons and rudder are not used correctly. Ground handling can be very difficult even in a real plane. Bigger heavier planes have less problems.

48 minutes ago, Rocky said:

I think I would be able to do it in real life, probably because an A320 is easier to fly than a 747 😁

Well, I mean, the 747 is capable of a CATIII autoland, so find me the right airport and I can "do" it too. 😄

 

The difference is the real pilot can do it if the computers fail.

 

3 hours ago, 177B said:

You have to hold down the windward wing with aileron in order not to flip the plane down wind in a real plane. especially in a high wing light aircraft. 

You use rudder and brakes to control yaw, the desire of a plane to turn into the wind. Sometimes it helps, especially on tail draggers, to gun the throttle to create airflow by the rudder for added rudder effect.

Set up high wind at an airport and taxi around a bit to see how the model behaves, especially in gusty wind. Try taxing a Cub around in a circle with 20 mph wind. With higher wind gusts the plane can flip over sideways or even on its nose if elevator, ailerons and rudder are not used correctly. Ground handling can be very difficult even in a real plane. Bigger heavier planes have less problems.

I'm a licensed pilot with my instrument rating. 🙂

Aileron into the wind doesn't work in the sim. 

I also realized discussed wind issue while taking of in eg TBM or G36, especially as soon as the ac loses ground traction and tends to swing sideways. After today’s patch I just took off with the TBM at LOWI with live weather, light winds and no such behavior, smooth and straight takeoff. Maybe someone else can confirm this