Running some charts with LiveFlightData, looking at acceleration on the X,Y, and Z axes:
The points marked by the purple arrows are where I entered the wake turbulence of departing planes.
Most of the effect is shown on the Y axis i.e. up, and down. The other, smoother peaks, and troughs are me manoeuvring to stay within it, or to turn back into it. Larger spikes are where I used slew mode to reposition.
Just had another good one, coming in to it from above, passing through, then out the bottom. The purple arrows are where I entered then exited.
You can see the most active part is on Y, the green axis. There was some small amount of side to side movement, on X, and a much smaller, but higher frequency movement on Z or front to back.
Again this was in the 172.
This one was ■■■■ near perfect. I flew head on at a plane coming in to land, this time in the Rans S6S. As far as I know this plane does not have CFD. Again the purple arrows point to me entering, an exiting the wake.
Again, the majority of the movement in on the Y axis, with very little on X, or Z, but there was some. I did not encounter any rolling behaviour at all on these two tests, just jiggling up & down for the most part.
It looks very similar to what I would see the last time I tested entering a cloud, but I don’t remember how much of a difference there was between Asobo wind, and Active Sky wind on those particular tests.
This puts to bed the idea that only CFD enabled planes will be affected by it., but its effect is so minor it may as well not even be there.
