need track replay F18 pitching up and down, when trying to fly close formation.

[BatfinK.]

Hi please could you look at the F18 its awful to fly in close formation, it pitches up and down and never really feels like your in control. I hardly move my stick maybe only a few mm and it starts bobbing up and down. If you turn the fcs overide switch on it does fly a lot better , but if you go over I think its 500 knots you lose control and it goes crazy bobbing around.

Hopefully some one else could jump on this and post a track file or maybe explain it with more detail than I can.

Apart from that I love this sim, keep up the good work guys n girls..

Thank you

BatfinK

[speed-of-heat]

i don't have that problem... 

but you aren't meant to be in close formation at 500kts  either 

[kitten40]

Wake turbulence maybe?

[PawlaczGMD]

Set deadzone to 0, maybe increase curves?

[Raisuli]

1 hour ago, BatfinK. said:

Hi please could you look at the F18 its awful to fly in close formation, it pitches up and down and never really feels like your in control. I hardly move my stick maybe only a few mm and it starts bobbing up and down. If you turn the fcs overide switch on it does fly a lot better , but if you go over I think its 500 knots you lose control and it goes crazy bobbing around.

Hopefully some one else could jump on this and post a track file or maybe explain it with more detail than I can.

Apart from that I love this sim, keep up the good work guys n girls..

Thank you

BatfinK

PIO.  I could qualify as an instructor in the Advanced Pilot Induced Oscillation syllabus at any military flight school in the world; I'm an absolute expert at inducing oscillations.

Strangely, taking my curves from 20 to 8 was a huge help controlling that, but some days I'm so ham fisted there's no cure but go do something else.

One way to test this is set up something big, like a Bone at 400 knots, and fly formations with it at various distances.  If you can fly steady a few plane lengths away and start to oscillate up close it's all you.

<edit> If it's wake turbulence in close it's going to snap-roll you like a paper airplane in jet exhaust (I got spun into a tree trying to formation land with a Bone at Tel Nof).  It won't be porpoising, it'll be a sudden, probably violent loss of directional control.  Further out it's a little less violent, but no less obvious.  I get into wake turbulence all the time flying formations with F-14s when they turn into me (or I get ham fisted), which is my normal lead. </edit>

Edited June 5, 2024 by Raisuli