777coletrain Posted December 5, 2024 Posted December 5, 2024 (edited) 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. Edited December 5, 2024 by 777coletrain 5
ED Team BIGNEWY Posted December 5, 2024 ED Team Posted December 5, 2024 Hi, thank you for the feedback, and for the PM I will mention it to the team. best regards bignewy 1 1 Forum rules - DCS Crashing? Try this first - Cleanup and Repair - Discord BIGNEWY#8703 - Youtube - Patch Status Windows 11, NVIDIA MSI RTX 3090, Intel® i9-10900K 3.70GHz, 5.30GHz Turbo, Corsair Hydro Series H150i Pro, 64GB DDR @3200, ASUS ROG Strix Z490-F Gaming, PIMAX Crystal
P3CFE Posted June 15 Posted June 15 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 3
Dangerzone Posted June 18 Posted June 18 This one appears bugs me with air refueling. Breaks the immersion. 1
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