Realistic wind settings for G3
 

Here's what I'm lookin for. I am trying to figure out a ballpark area for realistic flight conditions on a windy and gusty.. but still flyable day.. I currently have the settings as follows

Wind Direction: 90 Deg
Wind Velocity: 10 MPH
Wind Variation: 35%
Wind Gust: 50%

Turbulent Layer Height: 15ft
Turbulence Strength proportion: 75%
Microturbulence Strength Proportion : 75%

Now these settings make for One heck of a rough landing environment .. but seem pretty realistic at 3/4 throttle and up. Plane is the PT-40 and I generally fly at the flight school for the "instructive punishment" of going off the runway (gotta teach myself to stay on it somehow).

Any help, comments, or idle banter is more than welcome :)

Thanks in advance,
Cameron

RE: Realistic wind settings for G3
 

I'm glad you're trying to simulate weather accurately. It's one of the features of G3 that I've really decided I like. It looks to me that your flying in a pretty realistic conditions. I'm in Indy about 3 hours S of you. We get the same 10mph standard wind here. If anything, your turbulence might be a little heavy, but as the days heat up and the heat reflects off of the fields, it's probably pretty realistic to leave it beefed up.

The key to stopping the plane is to learn to land using "transition flying". That basically means using throttle to control descent rate and elevator to control speed. The 'transition' means going from cruise flying to slow flight which uses the controls as I just wrote. If you want a more detailed description, email me and I'll do my best to describe it to you. Better yet, let's try it online some time. I'm either at Al's Suburbs or hosting Fly Em All.

crashntrash