More Accurate Wake Turbulence coming to X-Plane 11

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[HowardofOcal]

Nothing they could is more important than performance improvements, especially mult core

[imawatermelon]

I hit wake turbulence for this first time today during my flight from RJAA to KLAX. I took off behind a 747-400 and gave about a 1 minute gap thought that was fine. Shortly after takeoff I lost a ton of altitude and shook all around. Luckily I knew what it was so I saved it. Didn't realize how realistic it was!

[coolelbow]

X Plane NEEDS to stop having so much dramatic effect on the aircraft when on the ground. In a cross wind landing, sometimes FULL rudder is required to keep the nose wheel on the centre line...

[chrisevans-nodd]

I think it's great work is being done on wake turbulence but its that microburst that really caught my attention. Us glider pilots would love to see improved thermal modeling & maybe introduce wave lift too. That microburst visualization looks fantastic, would love to see that applied to thermals & ridgelift, get a feel for what's actually going behind the scenes. Dynamic air is a big part of flying, good to see it getting some attention.

[JacobTJ]

I hope they do more wing flexing in cruise, landing phase due to wing loading caused by small air pressure variences, air pocket and tiny turbulence etc

[marcokavcic]

what the videot didn't answer is, does the wake interact with other objects or does it remain a visual effect only.
or
is there a force that pushes the air and moves objects behind the tale.

would that also apply to a propeller pushing air backwards?
and would it also be implemented for heli rotorwash?

[TheRVPilot]

It would be cool to see come kind of turbulence or moment at least underneath clouds to add some more realism.

[themupproductions]

I saw the video of x-plane 11 troubleshooting, do you have any suggestions on how to get x-plane 11 to respond? like when I start a flight it loads then says not responding, the loads more then not responding, then when its done loading it goes to a black screen and says not responding, then it shows like a faded view like in the cockpit but then never responds. so I am kind of lost on what to do.

[DCRefom]

Hey Michael I'm itching to know the difference in fps with my i7 4790k @4.6ghz vs 3700x in xplane 11, could you please do video Haswell vs ryzen 3000

[GunniesLetsFlyVFR]

I did a did last week on my own channel. I got my plane bounced around by wake turbulence. Ill be giving it a go for sure. ;)

[Kotzbrockenheini]

My question is, how do you disable it again? For helicopters these exaggerated turbulences are impossible to be strong.

[maydaygoingdown]

As always great to see Xplane 11 being improved, I just wish they would work on fixing the reflection and shadows first...then things like wake turbulence.

[flightsimcraver]

I mean... really?? OK, more accurate wake turbulence, great. How about improving ATC and adding a new Ai traffic system, where we can even make our own flight plans for the traffic, using models either that you created or from online. Xplane is lonely, and dead, its only you and the cars on the road. As an Air traffic controller, it really bugs me. Flight simulation is mainly about realism, no one uses the Ai or atc in xplane, Cuz compared to fs2004 it sucks. I switched over to xplane about 3 years ago for obvious reasons. But honestly, if I just take a spin on p3d I'm always more immersed, alot of traffic interacting with atc and me. Please get this in xplane 11. It would drastically improve the sim. I honestly believe this should be number one on your list of "stuff to do to xplan". I'd appreciate if I got a reply just saying that this was seen.

[aldionsylkaj]

the wake turbulence is very buggy for me