I've found many where the opposite is true...

I've purchased a few electrics because I was quite impressed with their behaviour in the sim...

However I also noted that the modeled electric motors were different than those spec'd from the manufacturer...

For my real world plane I opted to purchase the sim modeled motor/electronics and found that this exactly reproduced the behaviour of the plane in the sim yielding much better performance.

Methinks that because electric specifications given in advertising, far more closely reflect actual observed results, when those specs are applied to electrics in the sim, we see similiar behaviour... however the same is not true for glow or gas...

That said, other than the power/motor modeling the physics modeling is amazingly accurate, with planes in the sim producing second and third order effects ( quirks ) that we see in the real world...

e.g. Adjust a 3D plane for a neutral C.G. and it will tend to ballon up in the sim on landing just like the real deal...


With a bit of skillful "tweaking" you can get uncannily accurate behaviour...


I sat with a powerful laptop all day at the field, and an Alpha 40 doing the physics for the Alpha 40 on the swap pages....

Flying each, doing the FAI trimming guide on both, etc.

I wanted to get everything right so I could let kids practice with it on the sim for a summer camp we run...

IMHO this resulted in the single most accurate trainer in any simulator.