droplets on windshield when flying through clouds?

[WelshZeCorgi]

Shouldn't there be droplets building on the windshield when flying through clouds under certain meteorological conditions?

[sirrah]

That would most certainly be a cool effect (just like in that other wwII sim )

 

(not sure though, if one would see this in a fast moving jet)

[Ala12Rv-watermanpc]

Wrong thread, sorry.

Edited April 19, 2021 by Ala12Rv-watermanpc

[Flappie]

Currently, droplets are seen when:

• either RAIN is set to 10,
• or cloud preset is Overcast 1 or Overcast 2.

Edited April 17, 2021 by Flappie

[sirrah]

10 hours ago, Flappie said:

Currently, droplets are seen when:

• either RAIN is set to 10,
• or cloud preset is Overcast 1 or Overcast 2.

You missed the point of the OP's wish

 

It's a wish for a water effect over the canopy when flying through clouds. Has 'nothing' to do with rain

[Flappie]

My bad, I'm a bit of a robot since 2.7 came out.

[sirrah]

15 minutes ago, Flappie said:

My bad, I'm a bit of a robot since 2.7 came out.

No problem mate 

[Ala12Rv-watermanpc]

wrong thread, sorry.

Edited April 19, 2021 by Ala12Rv-watermanpc

[twistking]

On 4/15/2021 at 9:27 PM, WelshZeCorgi said:

Shouldn't there be droplets building on the windshield when flying through clouds under certain meteorological conditions?

 

actually i'm not sure. i've never seen that effect captured on video. the video in the post above does not count, as this seems to be just normal rain. also a glider is very slow obviously...

 

if you drive your car through thick fog, you don't expect droplets to form neither. would be nice if someone with real flying experience could chime in on this.

[Stearmandriver]

It's more of a water sheeting effect, at jet speeds.  I mean I've never been in a fighter, but in airline and corporate jets, moderate or heavy rain just results in continuous water sheeting over the windshield.  Wipers or forced air are necessary to clear the windshield in most of these aircraft.  Obviously fighters don't have wipers; does the Hornet use bleed air?  I'll have to look in the manual.  I know for certain the A-6 used bleed air.  It's also just possible that the shape of the airflow around the nose and windscreen directs the rain away on its own though...

[VampireNZ]

I can absolutely assure everyone that yes you do indeed get rain droplets forming on the windshield, (and whole aircraft actually) when flying through clouds with no visible 'rain'. Obviously depends on the cloud 'solidity' and type etc. Clouds are simply made up of water droplets formed around a 'aerosol' such as a dust/dirt particle (unless they consist of 'frozen rain') -  so of course you are going to get water build-up as these droplets impact and collect on your windshield etc. 

 

In the P-3 Orion we always taxied through the 'bird bath', or jets of fresh water from the ground, to wash the salt spray off the aircraft after a low level patrol/mission over the water. But if we managed to locate a few decent clouds on the way home at higher level then that would suffice to ''wash' the aircraft adequately to remove salt spray build-up etc not requiring a bird bath wash once landed.

 

Fighter jets can have a 'rain removal/windshield heat' system that consists of blowing a 'sheet' of hot bleed air over the exterior of the canopy/windshield to remove/inhibit rain on the windshield - so you would need to check each specific jet type to see what system is implemented. System doubles as rain removal and also maintains a warm windshield that is more 'compliant' and less likely to shatter if anything solid hits it.

[Ala12Rv-watermanpc]

11 hours ago, twistking said:

 

actually i'm not sure. i've never seen that effect captured on video. the video in the post above does not count, as this seems to be just normal rain. also a glider is very slow obviously...

 

if you drive your car through thick fog, you don't expect droplets to form neither. would be nice if someone with real flying experience could chime in on this.

Sorry, my bad, I posted the video in the wrong thread, of course there shouldn't be rain streams over the cockpit when flying through the clouds.

[twistking]

@Ala12Rv-watermanpcno problem, it's a cool video anyway.

[sirrah]

1 hour ago, Ala12Rv-watermanpc said:

 of course there shouldn't be rain streams over the cockpit when flying through the clouds.

 

Have you've been reading what @VampireNZ wrote, from his actual experience 

 

So yes, there should be rain droplets (and eventually rain streams) when flying through clouds.

[Ala12Rv-watermanpc]

2 hours ago, sirrah said:

 

Have you've been reading what @VampireNZ wrote, from his actual experience 

 

So yes, there should be rain droplets (and eventually rain streams) when flying through clouds.

 

yes, but unless DCS actually model these particular conditions, maybe is not a good idea to have these droplets everytime we pass though a cloud...otherwise I'm absolutely in with this of course. Also, My initial video was about droplets UNDER rain, not inside a cloud.

[twistking]

i tried to find some more info and it seems that all kind of different effects can be seen (soemtimes including rain droplets), depending on the circumstances.

so it would probably be best to tie that in with the actual upcoming weather simulation and not have it triggered with every cloud.

also it should differ between aircraft as @VampireNZ pointed out.

Edited April 19, 2021 by twistking