Preferred level of turbulence

[TimRobertsen]

When setting up missions, do people have a preffered level of turbulence to make the air feel "alive"?

 

Im not a pilot so I don't really have strong idea of what represents different levels of turbulence.

 

I typically have it set to around 10-20.

[Wizard1393]

I typically set it to 30. Feels alive and bumpy when down low.

Edited September 20, 2021 by chrisofsweden

[andyw248]

Same here, setting it to 30. This makes it feel similar to flying small airplanes in real world on most of the days in moderate climate zones. Not as brutal as around real world desert airports though, for that you would have to set it higher, maybe 60 - but then it also depends on the time of day, in the morning there is usually less turbulence while at noon and in the afternoon there is more.

[fagulha]

I have this question for long too.

I set to 18 for my carrier ops. Going to try 30 as mentioned above.

[TimRobertsen]

On 9/22/2021 at 9:39 PM, andyw248 said:

Same here, setting it to 30. This makes it feel similar to flying small airplanes in real world on most of the days in moderate climate zones. Not as brutal as around real world desert airports though, for that you would have to set it higher, maybe 60 - but then it also depends on the time of day, in the morning there is usually less turbulence while at noon and in the afternoon there is more.

Interesting, is turbulence around desert airports (tropical zone) due to heated air rising from the ground?

[Nealius]

I followed this advice from Reflected, just bumped the values down by 5~10 or so.

 

 

[TimRobertsen]

50 minutes ago, Nealius said:

I followed this advice from Reflected, just bumped the values down by 5~10 or so.

 

 

 

Nice! Thanks!

@Reflected use those values in relation to a 10 knots wind?

 

Since the strength of the turbulence increases with the strenght of the wind, if you increase the wind to 20-25 knots, could the turbulence-values listed by Reflected cause unrealistic/overly exaggerated turbulence?

Edited September 24, 2021 by TimRobertsen

[Reflected]

20-25 knots of wind would be unrealistic for flying. 
 

The turbulence levels I described yield a realistic result with 5-10 (-15) kts of wind

[Nealius]

Turbulence is more related to thermals ("visible" by clouds) than wind, no? 

[davidrbarnette]

For those asking, turbulence can come in many forms. The common ones are thermal or convective turbulence, caused by rising air (can be from t-storms, uneven heating of the ground, etc), wind shears (a change in wind direction over a short distance or altitude window), mechanical turbulence (caused by wind over the ground or obstructions), and frontal turbulence (as the name implies, experienced when flying across a front). 

 

The new clouds in DCS are great, but as a pilot, one place that most flight sims do a really poor job of simulating is weather. In real world flying, there is a tremendous amount of time spent understanding and preparing for the weather before heading up, and in combat flight sims it is almost a non-factor.

Edited September 24, 2021 by davidrbarnette
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