Wake Turbulance

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I have wake turbulence enabled and fly at 2x or 4x to save time. This, at times results in I getting close to other aricraft on finals, ahead of me. I use BATC AI traffic and today, while landing the Fenix a320, I got close to another a320 right in front of me with separation being like half a mile. BATC asked me to go around that I ignored (again saving time thing :laughing: ). I was in for a nasty surprise, I believe, I was caught in wake turbulence of the aircraft in front of me and was violently thrown off the glideslope with pitch down. Had to very quickly recover, do a TOGA and go around. Obviously a lesson learnt in listening to the ATC.

My question is, is it how realistic is it for same size aircraft that gets caught in wake turbulence of another to be thrown off with pitch down?

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It is totally realistic IRL for the same size aircraft to be affected by the wake turbulence of a large aircrcraft in front of it.

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It is indeed, but the effect seems overdone. There is an aspect to the flight model though because I noticed it affects some aircraft far more then it does others. We are not sure why.

Mathijs Kok
PMDG

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There’s a discussion https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/wake-turbulence-has-little-to-no- were some report not enough effect, mostly jet blast (and not wake turbulence) and the visual fancy representation seems not matching laws,physics :slight_smile: (wake appear with lift).