Make turbulence feel the way you want.

The row names the aircraft type your settings are saved for, then what it flies. Calibrated means the type has settings of its own, all at the shipped defaults. Custom means at least one of them is yours. And your usual settings means it has none of its own yet.

It gives that type its own copy of what it was flying, plus your change, and the app says "Saved for the PMDG 737 only.", naming your aircraft. In the panel the row simply turns to Custom. Nothing you feel jumps. From then on, your usual settings no longer reach that type.

Every aircraft without settings of its own flies these. To change them, make your changes with no flight loaded, while This aircraft reads "No aircraft. Changes go to your usual settings." Changes made in an aircraft StrataWx does not recognise go there too.

Puts the type you are flying back to the shipped defaults: Strength at Real, every kind of air on at 100%, every direction at 100%, Character at Middle, every Advanced cell at Same with no fade, and the shudder's Strength at Real. The settings for every aircraft stay as they are. For 30 seconds the button reads Undo, which works once.

It shows only while there is something to put back, and resets one type at a time. With no aircraft loaded, or in one StrataWx does not recognise, it resets your usual settings instead. In an aircraft flying your usual settings, it gives that type settings of its own at the defaults, which your usual settings then stop reaching, and only Undo turns that back.

For up to 5 seconds after a flight loads or you switch aircraft, the row reads "Reading the aircraft." A per-aircraft change or Back to Calibrated made then is not saved: the app says "Your aircraft changed. Nothing was saved." and in the panel This aircraft shakes. Do it again once the name shows. Settings for every aircraft, such as Severe storms, save as usual.

The PMDG 737, the PMDG 777, the TFDi MD-11 and the Fenix A320 family. Every PMDG 737 variant shares one set, as does every PMDG 777, and the Fenix A319, A320 and A321 share one. In the two PMDGs turbulence is always held under severe, and StrataWx adds only what their own built-in turbulence leaves missing. The MD-11 and the Fenix ride like any other aircraft.

Other MSFS 2024 aircraft keep settings of their own too, under a name made from what the sim reports, such as Cessna C172. An aircraft the sim cannot name reads "Not recognised yet. Changes go to your usual settings." and flies your usual settings. On MSFS 2020 every aircraft reads that.

The master switch. On, your aircraft rides the turbulence in the weather, through its own flight model. Off eases StrataWx's ride out over 2 seconds and then adds nothing, while the readout keeps showing the real air. If the autopilot struggles or the aircraft feels wrong in rough air, switch it off to rule StrataWx out.

StrataWx adds nothing in gliders, helicopters, balloons or airships, which it knows by what MSFS reports and, for a glider, by its long, narrow wing. In those, MSFS's own turbulence and thermals carry on.

After the name comes what it flies: Calibrated, Custom or your usual settings. Back to Calibrated sits on this row, with the live readout and Feel a sample bump under it. Settings follow the aircraft and Reading the readout explain both.

How hard turbulence shakes the aircraft. Real is calibrated: StrataWx measures the up and down ride at the seat and evens it out across aircraft. Heavy is 1.5 times Real and Max is twice Real, inside the safety limits, and Smooth adds nothing in this aircraft type.

It multiplies the turbulence in the weather and adds none of its own, so calm air stays calm. A change eases in over a few seconds. The Turbulence buttons on the panel's Controls tab set this same Strength. At any setting StrataWx also eases off within 15 kt of the barber pole and close to the stall, and stops in a bank past 35 deg on the autopilot or 50 deg hand-flown.

The word beside each kind is the real air in it right now, before your settings. Off takes that kind out over about 2 seconds and keeps its strength for when it is back on.

• Clear air is turbulence from wind shear, in cloud or out, plus what nearby pilot reports and severe turbulence SIGMETs call for where the weather model shows little. It comes in patches about 2,000 ft deep, so climbing or descending that much usually takes you out of one.
• Mountain waves come from wind of more than 15 kt across high ground in stable air, and are strongest from the ground to well above the ridge.
• In cloud is the bumpiness inside cloud that is not a storm, light and steady in layered cloud and bumpier in heaped cloud. You feel it only while MSFS says you are inside a cloud it is drawing.
• Storms are thunderstorms and towering cumulus, with updrafts, downdrafts and sharp hits, and some of it reaches past the visible cloud.
• Low level and gusts is a surface wind above 5 kt stirring the air near the ground, plus the gusts the METAR reports, at full strength up to 1,000 ft above the ground and fading out above that. The panel calls it Low level.
• Light chop is light, rapid, rhythmic bumpiness below light turbulence, in noticeable wind shear, just above cloud tops, near the tropopause in strong wind or in a jet core. It moves you up and down only.
• Thermals reads Left to MSFS for now: StrataWx adds no thermal bumps yet, and MSFS's own thermals carry on.

• Vertical is the up and down you feel as g: the steady bumps, storm drafts and hits, and the quick bumps of chop and cloud. It also sets the size of Feel a sample bump.
• Side to side is a sideways gust your aircraft turns into nose swing and some wing rocking. It builds mostly where wind blows across your nose, so in calm wind or a straight headwind it changes little.
• Fore and aft is the gust along the aircraft's nose that makes the airspeed wander.
• Roll reads Coming in a later update. StrataWx adds no roll yet.

Only Vertical is evened out across aircraft in this beta. Side to side and Fore and aft run at a fixed strength, so the same setting can feel different from one aircraft to the next.

By type and By motion multiply, and one kind in one direction stops at 200% before Strength: Storms at 200% with Vertical at 200% rides as 200%, not 400%.

Long swells or short chop, at the same strength. Toward Swells each bump is longer, so they come less often and feel slower and smoother. Toward Chop they come quicker and sharper, with a quick texture on top.

Storm drafts and hits, surface gusts, light chop and the quick bumps inside cloud keep their own timing. Middle is the ride as it ships.

A short up and down shake through the airframe right after a hard hit, 4 to 6 shakes a second that die away over a second or so. Bigger aircraft ring slower and softer, small ones quicker and firmer. At Real it takes a sharp hit, the kind moderate air or rougher brings. It never starts below 500 ft or near a stall, comes a few times a minute at most, and in-cloud bumps and light chop never set it off.

Soft rings smaller and far more rarely, and Max puts every ring at the most the safety limits allow. With the shudder's Strength or the ride's Strength above Real, a sharp hit in lighter air can ring now and then. Set an aircraft's Strength to Off to drop the shudder in that aircraft only. In the panel, the shudder's Strength is the value on its row.

Eases off before the autopilot would let go. While the autopilot flies, StrataWx keeps the bank swing and the load change it adds inside two limits, easing off as it nears them, and the readout says when it does. Both limits cover every aircraft too: Bank swing, 2 to 10 deg (4 deg by default), and Load change, 0.20 to 1.00 g (0.60 g by default).

A lower limit eases off sooner, and a higher one leaves more of the ride on the autopilot. It knows the autopilot is flying only when your aircraft reports it to MSFS, which some add-on autopilots may not do (Questions has a check). When you hand-fly with it on, StrataWx keeps the bank swing it causes inside a fixed 6 deg.

Off holds all turbulence, storms included, under severe for your aircraft's weight, with tighter limits on how hard a hit can land. On lets storms hit at full strength. Severe turbulence means large, abrupt changes in altitude and attitude, and the aircraft may be momentarily out of control, so leave it off unless you want that.

Strength scales the ride after the hold, so at Heavy or Max the readout can say Severe, or even Extreme, with this off. In the PMDG 737 and 777 the switch is greyed out and the row says why, naming your aircraft, as in "Held under severe in the PMDG 737."

A grid of the six kinds against Vertical, Side to side, Roll (which reads Later), Fore and aft and Fade below. A cell reads Same while it follows By motion. Set one and it replaces By motion for that one kind in that one direction, and Same as By motion puts it back. Light chop only moves the aircraft up and down, so its Side to side and Fore and aft cells do nothing.

Fade below takes one kind out near the ground, from Off up to 1,000 ft in 50 ft steps. That kind is at full strength at the height you set and above, and gone at half of it: set 400 ft and it is full above 400 ft, half at 300 ft and gone from 200 ft down. The height is above the ground right under you, not the runway.

The panel shows one kind at a time: pick Clear, Waves, Cloud, Storms, Low or Chop under One kind of air.

Sends one smooth bump through the aircraft, about 0.15 g at the seat at Real, lasting 1.5 seconds, so you can feel your settings without waiting for rough air. It follows Strength and By motion > Vertical, not the weather, so it feels the same in calm air. One every 5 seconds.

With Shudder on hard hits on and its Strength above Off, a bump flown above 500 ft ends with a ring too, so switch the shudder off to feel the bump alone. The button shows only while you fly at 1x, with Felt turbulence and Inject on, Strength above Smooth and the new in-sim module loaded.