reported ACLS issues with "Wake turbulence" ON

[miguelaco]

Flying the excellent Bold Cheetah campaign by @Sedlo, I encountered difficulties with Mission 6 due to ACLS's inability to land the aircraft properly in those weather conditions. After some investigation, I found that the "Wake turbulence" setting might be the root cause. According to some sources, this setting affects the carrier burble, making the ACLS system work hard to compensate, leading to frequent bolters, hard traps, and damaged landing gear.

These two videos illustrate the issue, both in the same mission and under identical weather conditions:

I believe ACLS should handle these situations better, but I might be mistaken, and this could be the intended behavior. It seems odd that this single setting causes such a failure.

acls_no_wake_turbulence.trk acls_wake_turbulence.trk

[miguelaco]

Any updates on this? I originally posted under Bugs & problems in F/A-18C subforum and it was moved here without any notice. I can hardly see it is a problem in the Supercarrier module itself, but anyway, shouldn't it at least be under Bugs & problems in this subforum?

[f-18hornet]

Thank you, reported for analysis.

[TimSell75]

I tested various  landings with ACLS. As long as wake turbulence is enabled, the aircraft always lands short, causing a hook skip bolter.

When I disable wake turbulence, everything just works fine.

[norman99]

Yeah, this seems to be a long time complaint. Hopefully it'll get addressed on day. Untill then I just keep wake turb off. Not ideal, but it's all we have at the moment.

[HILOK]

seems to have been like this for almost 3 years. i wish things like that could be addressed within a shorter timeframe...

 

[miguelaco]

I also reported and provided evidence in this thread:

It seems it's been handed over to the devs for analysis.

[BIGNEWY]

threads merged