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Contrails do not move with the wind when they are created by an aircraft. 

When aircraft fly with a crosswind they will always have some amount of "crab" angle to maintain a course, making them appear to fly 'sideways' through the wind. When they create a contrail that contrail is also affected by the wind causing it to appear in a straight line behind the aircraft. Currently in DCS the contrails stay in the same position they were created making the aircraft's crab angle very apparent. I'm including three pictures, what happens in DCS, what happens IRL and a depiction (I'm a great artist I know) of what is happening.

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Edited by 777coletrain
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I did post about this bug about 10 years ago (and a rescent one in "clouds and weather"), but your observation and explanation is better.

I first thought that the Smoke and contrails were blown away by a sidewind relative to the Aircraft, but after your post I dubbel checked and you are Correct.

The contrails and smoke are not effected by the moving Air volume after leaving the tailpipe as they should.

Would be great to hear from the Dev's on this and what their conclusion is.

regards

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