Caldera Posted May 17, 2021 Posted May 17, 2021 (edited) Hey Guys, So I recently started flying (sim-ing) with wake turbulence on. As a result I started doing quite a bit of internet research as to how to deal with it. I have about zero real world pilot experience. A few things I do not understand. Let me say that in DCS I am sure the modeling of wake turbulence to be 100% accurate effect would be monumental. It could be a entire simulation in itself. For this purpose, I am only concerned with how it works in DCS. Case 1 - AAR I notice that below and directly behind the tanker (1000') the air is smooth. I approach the tanker until just about at the point when I would radio "Ready Pre-Contact". Moving in from there I get a significant amount of lift which continues until I am just about ready to actually connect to the probe. At that point the lift effect is gone. I call it "Flying through the hump" (Burble?) and I generally sort of dash through it a little and at the same time applying down elevator. From the wake turbulence visualization I have seen and information that I have read about the wake should generally be moving downward. This lift normal? Case 2 - Jet wash A couple of examples, but in both I feel zero effect. One example would be on the runway for take-off directly behind the lead aircraft (ex: 3 ship). The run up, hold and count down to brake release there is no turbulence. Another example, I have in the past trained for AAR by basically shoving the nose in as close as I could get it to the tankers left or right outboard engine. I did this just for practice. After turning on wake turbulence I tried it. Sometimes I was extremely close to impacting the cooling air exhaust nozzle with the nose of the A-10, again no turbulence. Is jet wash modeled? If so how accurate would it be? Case 3 - Formation Landing I have done it once and to say I am not very good at it just yet. But I did notice wake turbulence on the way down as I got out of position a bit. However, at just about the point where the lead aircraft rotated for wheels down I got allot of lift. I basically felt like I had to really shove the aircraft down even though I felt like I was in a pretty good echelon right position right about then. I had full flaps and a good amount of air brakes deployed. This lift normal? Thanks in advance, Caldera Edited May 17, 2021 by Caldera
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