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Daylight saving in different places?

I personally do not have a slightest problem flying PC-12 after patch. I mostly fly instruments so I do not do steep turns, lazy eights, deep spirals and etc LOL So I can't comment on that aircraft behavior. I do not have any yaw problem anymore during approach to landing or take off I use yaw dumper most of the time and disconnect it right after desired approach speed is being established. I love SWS PC-12 feel of control heaviness. And I'm pretty sure those who flew aircraft other than light GA IRL would agree with me! I used o fly Money with "positive control" system where you can't go pass 15-30 degrees of bank without pressing and hold disconnect button. That was awkward as hell especially when you have to do VFR maneuvers! Because of that controls very super stiff - nothing like PA28R ! But nothing like to have awkwardly heavy controls and experience inflight fire in the same airplane later on. It was story to tell LOL How about Mooney with Johnston bar (a manual gear retraction system)? You little late to party after to bring gear up (right after the take off) and good luck fighting airflow while retracting gear LOL It was very physically demanding passed certain airspeed. I had an occasion when I had to slow down airplane in climb just to bring gear up. Not a good thing to do single pilot IFR in IMC! So the bottom line, to me pitch, power, trim this all you need to know about flying PC-12. Small deflection, standard rate of turn and everything smooth like butter. Works for me like charm.

Here s another perspective from discord A decade ago, I was a corporate pilot IRL. Among other airplanes, I flew the Phenom 100 and the C510, both of which have an aileron-rudder interconnect. From what I can tell, SWS is blending the aileron and rudder inputs proportionally to simulate this. I can't speak to the PC-12 obviously, but in both of those other airplanes, the interconnect springs did not affect hand-flying appreciably, unless you were making large deflections on the yoke, such as a stiff crosswind landing. The way I'd describe the feeling, is that if you were making large rudder and aileron inputs, you could feel the springs tugging one way or another, but you would account for this with *slight* control pressure, not with deflection. I think that's a fundamental problem with the SWS model. In MSFS, you must counter with *deflection* and not *pressure* because that is how a desktop joystick or yoke works...so basically you end up with counter-intuitive control inputs in the sim, for the sake of simulating a minor system

Do you realize that cumulus is not the only one type of cloud that you can see?

Here is Active Sky shows some weather ahead while I'm cruising at FL200

Bad weather can have a very broad definitions! If we are talking about convective sigmet or line of frontal thunderstorms - yes no single engine GA should mess around with that. But then some IMC with rain showers and high pressure should not be a biggie for single engine IFR. Not much turbulence should be expected there after all. While for some folks it still could bel considered as bad weather and for others is not!

Yep me to! I'd rather see VFR sectional instead LOL

Hmm that is very strange. I haven't done much VFR flight maneuvers post patch. but did two hand flown instrument approaches and didn't notice much problems. Did you try to delete existing SWS PC-12 installation? I had problems with SWS installer in the past, so now I manually delete pervious installations before each update

Most videos I saw on youtube hand flying PC-12 pilots had yaw dumper on at all time except take off landing. I think it's for the reason.

Just want to say that based on my experience IRL sometimes cumulus can grow from little puff to a huge cloud in a matter of minutes, especially over mountains. So I think to incorporate something like that would sound reasonable as part of smoothing transition

This actually a thing. I do work with Microsoft products professionally and in my line or work a lot of technical support issue being resolve when customer get windows updates up to date. 80% of the time it's networking issue which in turn also related to cloud syncing . Microsoft is notorious for disrupting network connections when important security updates are pending

I set weather transition smoothness to 3 and it's much better, but there is still room for improvement. Occasionally clouds still pop and disappear

It flies much better! Excessive yaw has been fixed . I'm using TDS NXI version and PFD integration has been significantly improved for me. There are still few minor binding bugs but it is not show stopped

I wouldn't compare light DA20 with multiengine aircraft! LOL It's like you only flown Cessna 172 and try access how would 414 would fly