Wake Turbulence Visualization 

Apply this to all the smoke effects and I can die happy.

I am blown away by the sheer amount of detail in EVERYTHING done. It’s professional level

Therapist: Fluid dynamics skull isn't real he can't hurt you Fluid dynamics skull: 3:48

Difficulty Changes Take off +50 Landing +80 AIR REFULE +500

Extremely extremely extremely impressive! From a real jet pilot, you've captured and replicate wake vortices very well. We have to basically visualise those patterns in our mind when flying close to other aircraft. Your graphics matched my minds eye so close it gave me goose bumps. Keep up the good work.

*S I M U L A T I O N*

Excellent work, you should be very proud of yourselves!

AWESOME! Thanks for the visualisation... we appreciate it even more now (like we weren't feeling how "fun" AAR had become with it)! * Programming this would have been a pain in the neck!

Thank you for this inspiring science session. I really enjoyed that one. Keep it coming please.

When they said particle visualization, and i saw the IL-76 and Su-27, I thought it was just a exhaust joke ;)). But really, excellent work team!

Yo this video is actually great for visualizing wake turbulence for a student pilot. No doubt would be a great addition to the game as well.

DCS world definitly has the best flight models out there ! Keep up the great work !

I love you guys. Supported you from day 1 with BS1!!! Thank you guys so much for QUALITY and attention to detail!

Imagine how DCS will look and feel a few years from now. wow.

Wow that's really nice! Aerospace engineer here. I'm curious on how do you then apply this vorticity to the flight model of the aircraft being washed by the wake vortex (i.e. the one behind). I assumed that flight models in DCS were based on aerodynamic coefficients, so the wind speed should be pretty much a single value for the whole aircraft (Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think you do CFD in real time). Do you make the upstream wind speed vary depending on the aircraft's position within the wind field ? Or do you have a vorticity coefficient based on the relative position of the vortex?

Finally noobs will understand to not to form behind the leader

Been in professional simulation for 15 years, looking forward to try out that feature!

If we could kick up water and dust in this manner that would be very cool.

Best game ever! Getting better and better! Thank you ED.

Awesome work, next up vapor cone please ;)

Looks amazing. Hopefully we can see this affect smoke one day! That would be incredible in videos.

Наконец делом занялись молодцы ребят))успехов вам!!

will this have an effect on helicopters? can I knock my friend out of the sky?

I can't believe how complex this is. Congrats ED! Such a beautiful video showing stuff that's under the hood that we sometimes don't pay much attention to!

An amazing level of detail in a simulator, making everything even more realistic. An inspired idea to show it with this graphic.

I noticed the effects trying AAR after a loooong break from it. Such a welcome addition. Seeing this visualization is magical!

When I was a kid I play the game called Stealth and another one called Jet on an old commodore. I'm sure some of you remember. Those games were amazing to me. I'd have dreams at I that young age of flying a simulator that was light years ahead of those. Since then I have tried every single flight simulator that's ever come out. In these modern times I'm amazed that the products out now are so much better than even my dreams were back then. Thank you guys so much for making flight sims like this. I've been playing DCS forever, however now I have played in VR for the last year and can never go back, you guys have transported me into a new world!

Of course when I had to sell my computer, my favorite game gets the ultimate upgrade. Y’all are doing great work on this game. Keep it up!

Magnificent work. I look forward to seeing how this affects handling in the game.

at 3:53 the green spots look like a wolf But Thx for your hard work, for all details in this game

Amazing work, thank you. I spend all my free time in your sim. I love it and have been into DCS for about 7 years now.

What an insane video. Taken a fairly difficult concept to imagine and visualised it so that anyone could grasp it. Stunningly too.

Beautiful work, Would it be possible to see the trail left behind air refuelling aircraft?, and a visualiser for the wake as a whole off the tanker. (a great reference for those learning to air refuel who get caught up in the wake)

Those particle effects would make a sweet screensaver.

This is going to make in-flight refueling and close in dog fighting much more interesting. I've had wake turbulence and jet wash on my wish list for DCS ever since I purchased Lock On Modern Air Combat a decade and a half ago.

As somebody who works in computational physics, this makes me so happy!

Been flying the Huey, having a blast, need to save up for the maps and pester yall to start adding a Uh-60. :P

Wow. Amazing work!

And this is why DCS has the best flight models ❤️

Minute 3:55 great wolf picture 10/10 👏👏👏👏

Can't wait to have Fluid Dynamics in the next semester so I can even better aprecciate all the good work that has been going on here! It's truly awesome!

Now that there is wake turbulence, someone's gonna recreate the flat spin scene that killed goose in top gun

And here we go again with another proof that "there's nothing like DCS"!!!! 🎖️🎖️🎖️

This is a further illustration of the massive work that goes in to producing DCS. Something that you download for FREE!!! Hats off to Eagle Dynamics. I cannot imagine the complexity of what they do so we can "play".

Excellent visualization... actually learned something from this...

You guys are unbelievable, simple as that!

XPlane: we have new wake turbulence modeling coming in 11.4X DCS: hold my frog foot

You guys are incredible, being able to design and program something like that, I'm blown away

I could watch a lot more of this. Very cool.

Fantastic work ED Team.

Beautiful! True work of art.

Coming from War Thunder and looking at this, you wouldnt think it posible but here are clearly devs that love their own game.

absolutely outstanding !!! this change out the air refuel, it's now more intense. great work ED

Good video guys. More of this

Very nice! This is the kind of stuff that keeps me coming back to DCS.

i love it, the day this applys to clouds as well seems not too far away

This is so cool to see, I had no idea it was modeled this well. Great work guys, keep up the fixes and new content.

This is an amazing video on wake vortices! They are the strongest when heavy, clean and slow too

Great work! Landing a helicopter on/near a smoke source, or over dusty ground produces a unique ring-shaped vortex or "doughnut" in the air where the smoke is. In more severe circumstances, like holding positive pitch during a fast descent, of course we get vortex ring induced uncontrolled descent, so that's already modeled. But the real question is, are the vortices modeled on rotorcraft as well and as SkyCaptainITA mentioned, do they affect particle-based entities such as smoke? If you fly a fixed-wing or helicopter behind and below another helicopter, you definitely feel the wake from it. The other fun thing about wake turbulence, not only can you feel it, you can *hear* it in real-life. (not sure about DCS) Stand under an approach path in a quiet place with things nearby that stick up above the ground. Wait for an aircraft to come over on finals. The bigger the better. It should be about 75-100 feet over you at this place. Listen carefully after the aircraft passes by and it gets quiet again. You'll hear the wake turbulence as it descends and encounters terrestrial objects. Sometimes you'll even hear it hissing as it descends.

Incredible. Awesome work !

Wow!!!! That is the reason why I love DCS, It is not just a game. This contains science!

More of these please! Love seeing the inner workings of the sim!

Most impressive. It gets better and better.

Wow, this is pretty staggering. Congrats on getting down to this level of physics simulation!

This is so uncredible... awesome work there! /)

Blown Away from seeing this!! Now it's a good idea to wait a minute or so before take-off after another jet

I've gotten the impression lately (from internet comments) that wake turbulence is synonymous with wingtip vortices. Wingtip vortices are part of what makes up wake turbulence, but what about prop wash, jet wash, and the air disturbed in the creation of induced drag and parasite drag. All of these are part of what makes up “wake turbulence”. I’ve done a little flying in DCS recently (and don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan and appreciate all that is being done by ED to enhance our experience) and I must say that I can recognize the simulation of the wingtip vortices, but I don’t seem to notice jet wash or any other disturbance. I have hesitated to post this because I don’t want to be mistaken for one of those people that you just can’t please, I’m not, and thank you for all your efforts, but there does, at least, seem to be some confusion here as to what wake turbulence is.

Please make clouds look beautiful, that way we can make some truly awesome cinematics for dcs!

Because air refueling was too easy! ;) very impressive!

really interesting to see this. It all adds to the experience. More great work ED, thank you

Absolutly stellar

Excellent work. Veeeery satisfying....

Instead video with epic music, this how i wish DCS demonstrated in the ads.

That is simply amazing! Cant imagin how many sleepless night you guys had to make that working! But That means a couple of things. First of all that should be addapted to smoke and clouds. And second. I should be able to destroy helos by flying close over them like the Harriers did in the Falkland war!

Awesome attention to detail.

In real life flight training, one way our instructors used to tell us that we nailed the 60 degree bank turn is by observing some light turbulence as the aircraft completes the 360 turn and fly into it's own wake turbulence. It would be freaking amazing if we could do that in DCS too.

Brilliant work guys!

Fantastic, soon i need to learn AAR and fly in close formation again...

This is gonna make more close in combat and merges interesting. Depending on how your paths cross wale turbulence can play a factor more seriously now in dog fights.

So awesome!

You have to remove the option to enable in game options and set Wake Turbulence on by default in DCS.

Vortex Couple Superposition otherwise know as Horse Face! This is awesome work!! I’ve already had to relearn AA-refuel with wake turbulence, adds a great element to the game. Also that wing dip when just about to shoot a bandit with guns..whoa! Lol.

Fantastic stuff. I’ve been playing flight sims since the mid 1980’s when I was a teenager. Back then I always wondered what flight sims would be like 20 to 30 years from then. Now that we’re there I’m absolutely blown away by the advances and possibilities. The gap between reality and the virtual world is closing fast. Keep up the good work.

Nitpick: You got air passing into the ground, not demonstrating ground effect.

Question, it seems the particles warp through the ground wouldn't this have a significant impact on the model if the ground doesn't act as a "blocker" here? or is it modeled but not showing up here?

All the dislikes are FC3 pilots worried they may have to fly 😂

You guys do a amazing great job 👌 I love this game 👏 Thanks 🙏🏻

Механика 👍 DCS world лучший симулятор. Жду развития.

Does this use a dedicated CPU core for it? How about helicopters and their ground effect, effect to obstacles like trees and buildings, and effect to smoke?

A BIG jump for ED. Now we're going real

Quite impressive, and the best part of this is that there is no impact on FPS (I'm assuming this because that is always the case with these effects in DCS), Love it!

That’s why airliners need categories “heavy” and “super” in the callsigns - to prevent this effect by distance.

Awesome work DCS

I understand how planes fly so much better now. You guys have gone and made the best simulation ever.

Incredible!

Pause at 3:53 and tell us what you see. To me it's obviously VFA83's ram!

At 341 - 346 that visulation look back at you revealing the monster that wake turbulence is. Beware of the invisible monsters.

That was most interesting, thank you!

Great job guys!

My wing got torn off when I crossed the bandit's wake turbulence in a turn fight at a high G. Mind blown.