To confirm it's a trim issue due to wind, use trim to get level in one direction and then bank 90 degrees and level off. You should have to re-trim.
Even better, do a 180 degree turn and see if it's banking the other way.
If it's trim due to engine torque or similar, you can try turning that off and seeing how level you fly.
If you suspect it's the controller, disconnect that and fly with keys and check behaviour.
I thought I had a problem, but after a lot of flying around in several different aircraft, I am fairly convinced it is due to the FM and that you need to trim a fair amount to maintain S&L flight. The banking I find is countered well enough on Brit fighters with a touch of rudder trim.
It could well be observer error, but I noticed that my trim changed when flying straight from over land to over sea and crossing a fair distance. I would also have to re-trim after banked turns like above.
What I would love confirmed is how complex a wind model (if at all thus rendering all my fiddling moot) is employed. Trying to use fliers' tricks like looking at the smoke from a burning wreck (I'd use domestic chimneys or power stations in rl) doesn't seem to help as it always goes straight up. Likewise, clouds do not seem to drift so no help there.
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