Hi.  I don't see any posts on this aircraft newer than 2016.  Hope someone who flies it is watching 🙂

I've been practicing steep turns and stalls.  Everything seems close enough to the real thing.  I am doing my flight review in one so this is valuable for instrument scan and horizon practice.

For stalls, it behaves mostly as expected except for one thing.  There is no buffeting or pre-entry behavior to respond to.

It gets very mushy but the nose remains up as the stall warning is going off.  The only possibilities that follow are entry, incipient and developed phases.  There is no other feedback.

Real 182s are hard to stall.  Sometimes we just give up and recover from a super high AOA.  But when it does stall, it is the same as other Cessna's, buffet, a bit of a nose down and we recover without rudder.  That doesn't seem possible in this model.

I always hit the rudder as there is always a lot of roll.  It does recover as expected from a spin.  The result is always a loss of at least 400 feet of altitude.  Any else try this?

Edited August 17, 2025Aug 17 by NickMDal

This purchase is turning into a disappointment.  Guessing no one is discussing this aircraft as its positive attributes are mostly visual.

Practicing crosswind landings is impossible.  I've adjusted the TM pendular rudder so that it is as close as it will get to the real thing.

Setting a 9 knot left crosswind and the aircraft veers wildly to the left. 😠