Hi, I just updated to version 1.27 of the A350. To be honest, man, the handling feels really strange now—pitch and roll controls are unusually sluggish. This isn't the responsive feel the A350 should have. Could we revert back to the control feel in version 1.26?

3 hours ago, 91868 said:

Hi, I just updated to version 1.27 of the A350. To be honest, man, the handling feels really strange now—pitch and roll controls are unusually sluggish. This isn't the responsive feel the A350 should have. Could we revert back to the control feel in version 1.26?

Hi,

Based on user and real world pilot feedback, we believe the flight model in 1.2.7 better represents the real world aircraft.

Are you running any sensitivity curves on your hardware?

Thanks!

5 hours ago, iniKyle said:

Hi,

Based on user and real world pilot feedback, we believe the flight model in 1.2.7 better represents the real world aircraft.

Are you running any sensitivity curves on your hardware?

Thanks!

Hi，i always use the straight line，Hello, I just spoke with a real A350 pilot today, and I can report his comments: first, roll control is very good; the main issue lies in pitch control.

He pointed out: Under normal circumstances, the control stick does not respond immediately when touched. However, once input is given to the control stick, the pitch rate is quickly established, and there is no obvious "wait for half a second before moving slowly" lag.

Issue an command, and you pull the stick a little, and the aircraft will directly give you the corresponding G/pitch change. The response is smooth and crisp, with very little sluggishness.

For wide-body aircraft, their inherent inertia is large. Under a large stick input, the attitude change will of course not be as smooth as that of a fighter aircraft; but small and precise corrections for leveling the five sides and fine adjustments of the flight path are responsive and in line with the operator's hand movements.

When the stick returns to the middle position, the aircraft will maintain 1g and will not continue to slowly sway for a long time.The Airbus fly-by-wire system will actively shape the response and won't give you that obvious lag sensation. The heaviness is due to the aircraft's inertia, not because the control law has added a lot of damping to prolong the response time.

According to the A350 pilot, the roll control feel in version 1.2.7, combined with the pitch control feel in version 1.2.6, is very similar to that of the actual aircraft.

I hope you can promptly correct this issue. Thank you very much for your efforts.❤️

Edited Monday at 10:44 AM3 days by 91868
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15 hours ago, 91868 said:

Hi，i always use the straight line，Hello, I just spoke with a real A350 pilot today, and I can report his comments: first, roll control is very good; the main issue lies in pitch control.

He pointed out: Under normal circumstances, the control stick does not respond immediately when touched. However, once input is given to the control stick, the pitch rate is quickly established, and there is no obvious "wait for half a second before moving slowly" lag.

Issue an command, and you pull the stick a little, and the aircraft will directly give you the corresponding G/pitch change. The response is smooth and crisp, with very little sluggishness.

For wide-body aircraft, their inherent inertia is large. Under a large stick input, the attitude change will of course not be as smooth as that of a fighter aircraft; but small and precise corrections for leveling the five sides and fine adjustments of the flight path are responsive and in line with the operator's hand movements.

When the stick returns to the middle position, the aircraft will maintain 1g and will not continue to slowly sway for a long time.The Airbus fly-by-wire system will actively shape the response and won't give you that obvious lag sensation. The heaviness is due to the aircraft's inertia, not because the control law has added a lot of damping to prolong the response time.

According to the A350 pilot, the roll control feel in version 1.2.7, combined with the pitch control feel in version 1.2.6, is very similar to that of the actual aircraft.

I hope you can promptly correct this issue. Thank you very much for your efforts.❤️

Thanks. Noted for the team to review!

On 10/26/2026 at 10:18 PM, iniKyle said:

Thanks. Noted for the team to review!

Hi sir，I have another question: will the feedback I recently submitted be fixed directly in A350v2, or will it be included in version 1.28, or in the v1.27 hotfix?

3 hours ago, 91868 said:

Hi sir，I have another question: will the feedback I recently submitted be fixed directly in A350v2, or will it be included in version 1.28, or in the v1.27 hotfix?

Hi,

We are wrkking on refining the flight model, but I am not sure when exactly this will be implemented.

Thanks for your undertanding and patience 🙂