Pitch sensitivity and flight model

[jonboede]

Do the flight models in DCS have understated pitch sensitivity?

 

I was watching a youTube video of two DCS aircraft in formation and they were flying really good formation, but dash-2 was making these +/-2 degree pitch changes and his aircraft wasn't moving much.

 

At 275 knots, a 2 degree pitch change results in a 16 foot altitude difference in one second. That's plus or minus a house.

 

I've flown lots and lots and lots of close formation in the L-39 and you just don't see pivoting pitch changes like that, rather dash-2 will oscillate up and down and it will look more like porpoising smoothly in a sine wave but you don't see the aircraft "pivot" around the CG.

 

What am I missing? To me it seems like the aircraft needs time to "bite" the air and accelerate into the pitch change rather than just "pivot".

Edited August 1, 2014 by jonboede

[Bushmanni]

That wobbling is most likely due to net code. There's a prediction algorithm that moves the plane between updates to make it fly smoothly but it can't anticipate the pilots actions so there's some slight error that shows up as wobbling when new update corrects the planes position and orientation.