Flight simulator - vortex and smoke

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vortex and smoke

Gregory

2005-05-27, 8:32 pm

Here's a question which has been puzzling for some time. Older jets
take off in the Sim (ones with smoke trail) and display a nose-up
pitch (as expected) due to airspeed. However the trailing smoke looks
peculiar -- probably because of no wake vortex effect on SMOKE.

See Cranfield Vortex (kewl graphic)...

http://mywebpages.comcast.net/fligh...ield_vortex.gif

There's much more of such info at Dr Cranfield's website. So then how
much does vortex effect SMOKE on takeoff IRW (in real world - displace
downward) assuming pitch is correct for V2+10 airspeed.

-Gregory

Dallas

2005-05-27, 8:32 pm

"Gregory"

quote:

> There's much more of such info at Dr Cranfield's website. So then how
> much does vortex effect SMOKE on takeoff IRW

I don't know. Not even sure I understand the question. :-)

But if you want to see great visual demonstration of wake turbulence go to
the bottom of this page:
http://www.aviationpics.de/pretty/pretty.htm

Dallas