How much does it pitch to the side if you don't put offsetting weight into
the passenger seat and how does it compare to the normal variation caused by
fuel burn from a single side at a time? If you do the math I think you will
see that the moment caused by the fuel burn changes is much higher then the
moment caused by the weight of the passengers so close to the centerline.

"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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John writes:

What is your expectation from your simulator experience?

I expect it to reasonably simulate weight and balance issues, which it
does,
but not having flown the real thing, I don't know how accurate the
simulation
is. I've read that MSFS tends to exaggerate the W&B effects of unequal
amounts of fuel in the tanks, for example, although I always keep fuel
loads
balanced.

Do you need to laterally balance the plane in MSFS?

Yes.