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Hey guys, I'm sure a lot of you use sims to keep current on your IRL skills, and if you're like me you had enormous hopes that FS 2020 would improve on the legacy FS and X-plane flight dynamics which are not very accurate in many areas of the flight envelope. FS2020 looks gorgeous but as someone who really needs fidelity to the real thing, their physics modeling of aerodynamic forces on light piston singles is a letdown after so much anticipation. I have not flown a 748 so I can't compare that to IRL but I am a CFI and hold an ATP and have sat in a 172 and 152 for a few thousand hours over 20 years and all I can say is that I am disappointed in FS2020's inaccurate flight model rendering of light singles. They are about as accurate as XPlane which is ok i guess, but not very good really. Just for basics, there seems to be a decent model of left-turning factors (torque, p-factor, precession, etc.) when the plane is still on the take-off roll, but these forces magically disappear once you leave the ground. I can do a full power steep climb with no rudders, which obviously is inaccurate. Likewise, with full reality settings, I can make no-rudder steep turns just fine. Slow flight and stall behavior are likewise not accurate. It may be that there's another realism setting I'm missing, or maybe they'll be some add-on Cessna someone designs that for $29 gets closer to reality, but I am reading all these glowing reviews and it sounds like folks are non-IRL and just really impressed by the visual renderings But the actual flight models don't seem close to reality to me at all.

They are supported as people have mentioned, but you have to assign the axis for each function. I was a little annoyed at first that such popular classic controls so many people have we not auto-configured, but really it only took about 10 minutes to set up both, so not to worry, it takes a minute or two to figure out the configuration interface but is pretty straightforward