I know this is an older version but maybe the newer versions are the same or some folks are still using the old version and may know the answer to my questions. Obviously the version I have is 3.5. When I use it I like to have wind direction across the runway, wind speed around 10 or so and I like it to be gusty as well instead of steady. The problem, I know how to change wind direction and speed but I don't know how to make it gusty. I'd also like the settings to be saved so every time I boot up the game the settings are already there. Right now I have to add wind and change direction every time. Can anyone explain how to do this? I"m not even sure its possible. The built in help is so un-intuitive, I'd need a hour of reading just to find what I'm looking for. I bet the answer is simple once you find it. I'm trying to have it be as realistic as possible. Whenever I go flying at the field, conditions are never perfectly calm. So I'd like to make whatever setting I can to make it as realistic as possible. Any other setting I should make to do that?

Second question. How realistic is the "handling" of the aircraft on this sim? Relatively speaking of course, as I realize the sim can never duplicate flying characteristics exactly. But I'm just curious what others who've used these alot think of how realistic the actual characteristics of the planes are relative to the real models? One thing I've noticed about this sim is it tend so make landings seem easier. The planes just settle on the runway as if sucked down. Again maybe there's a setting to fix that?

Thanks for any responses.
Shaggy

Shaggy,

Go to Setting->Wind and Weather->Global wind->Wind Gust
As far as realism - that's subjective.

You'll need to create a new airfield in order to save your settings. Just pick an existing field, change the wind speed, direction, etc. to what you want and then save it. You'll have to re-name the field. As for the turbulence just follow jzrf6c's diections.

I agree that the "help" menu in RealFlight is very un-intuitive. And it takes a considerable amount of reading to understand the different functions. But, those of us who understand had to do the reading and learning and if you want the most out of the sim you'll need to do the same.

The low speed flying physics in G3.5 are a bit "easy". Making take-offs, landings, stalls and slowflight a bit unrealistic. Unfortunately there isn't anything that can be done to change that. Unless you're willing to spend another $79.99 and upgrade to G5 ... of course then you'll need to make sure your computer can handle the new system requirements.