I have seen a lot of threads talking about turbulence but I cant find the options to turn it on. Someone said it was in the Assistance Options but I don't see any option for it.

Thanks Richard

1 hour ago, rwalls said:

I have seen a lot of threads talking about turbulence but I cant find the options to turn it on. Someone said it was in the Assistance Options but I don't see any option for it.

Thanks Richard

I believe it's in the current beta, not in the regular game yet. 

4 hours ago, rwalls said:

I have seen a lot of threads talking about turbulence but I cant find the options to turn it on. Someone said it was in the Assistance Options but I don't see any option for it.

Thanks Richard

If you are not in the beta, it will be published in the full finished release of SU12 in about 10 days time.  The beta seems very stable now.

Edited March 14, 20233 yr by bobcat999

4 hours ago, rwalls said:

I have seen a lot of threads talking about turbulence but I cant find the options to turn it on. Someone said it was in the Assistance Options but I don't see any option for it.

Thanks Richard

Up to SU11, you always have the full turbulence enabled when flying. Depending on the weather settings, wind, temperature, elevation of the Sun in the sky, terrain, the actual magnitude of the turbulence varies a lot. 

The drop-down box for toning down the turbulence has been introduced with SU12, which is currently in beta and will probably be released in a week from now, on March 21st.

Looking forward to this update as I'm finding the turbulence to be a little over exaggerated compared to the real world (and I've flown a lot of light aircraft and gliders in very gusty conditions in real life).

I can adjust the weather settings if I'm not using live weather to get around it if I want to for the time being.

Of course, we need turbulence in the simulator to add realism, but it will be nice to adjust it to what feels like the real world individually.

 

6 minutes ago, cianpars said:

Looking forward to this update as I'm finding the turbulence to be a little over exaggerated compared to the real world (and I've flown a lot of light aircraft and gliders in very gusty conditions in real life).

The overall consensus on the beta forums seems to be that the turbulence has been toned down a bit in SU12, even without changing the setting from "realistic" to medium or low. I haven't done much flying in the past month, so I can't really comment on this. Anyway, it's good to have the option to adjust it manually. 

20 minutes ago, pstrub said:

The overall consensus on the beta forums seems to be that the turbulence has been toned down a bit in SU12, even without changing the setting from "realistic" to medium or low. I haven't done much flying in the past month, so I can't really comment on this. Anyway, it's good to have the option to adjust it manually. 

These are my findings also. 

I initially tried medium in the beta because of the strength of the turbulence from the previous update, but they have toned-down the top setting for sure now in SU12 beta, so I am back at 'realistic' now, which seems... well, more realistic!   Medium still moves you about gently - it might be suitable for a nice relaxing Sunday afternoon flight!  

Edited March 14, 20233 yr by bobcat999

Thanks everyone for replying. I thought at least the option to turn Turbulence on and off was in SU11 and earlier.

Richard

 

Seems to me the new "realistic" setting has pretty minimal turbulence compared to the old version which was weird (lots of yaw for example) and annoyed people but in terms of frequency and amount was actually pretty spot on.

Edited March 22, 20233 yr by Glenn Fitzpatrick

1 hour ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

Seems to me the new "realistic" setting has pretty minimal turbulence compared to the old version which was weird (lots of yaw for example) and annoyed people but in terms of frequency and amount was actually pretty spot on.

Would be helpful to know what aircraft you have in use.  An issue with an element like turbulence in a simulation like this is one of scale. What a C150 sim pilot may feel is reasonable will likely differ from one who is flying a 737.  How to model that for both, and those in between must be a real challenge. 

For the past 8 months 98% of my hours have been logged in the Hjet.  My impression has been that recent MSFS turbulence has been overstated relative to the Hjet model and likely any lighter less powered aircraft models.  But then again I have been experiencing some very considerable turbulence on each and every  flight into R17 at KBMG.  It has been consistent with SU11.  I have visited KBMG often in light aircraft and can state with conviction that there is no such consistent phenomenon for that approach in actual flying. I will be into that airport again tomorrow in the Hjet and am curious to see any new difference.

1 hour ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

Seems to me the new "realistic" setting has pretty minimal turbulence compared to the old version which was weird (lots of yaw for example) and annoyed people but in terms of frequency and amount was actually pretty spot on.

I flew the realistic setting all day today, and it was fine.