So there were complaints that wake turbulence wasn't working on the release of MSFS 2024.  Anyways, for the upcoming SU2, it appears that they fixed wake turbulence and it will even work for multiplayer.  Here is the airflow visualization of the wake turbulence in SU2:

 

Seb also said he thinks it should work with all aircraft, even ones injected by VATSIM

Great!, was disappointed this was non-functional on release after seeing the cool airflow physics in action at the private preview presentation. Also very pleasantly surprised SU2 beta is very soon, looking forward to testing this out.
 

Edited March 15, 20251 yr by lwt1971

39 minutes ago, lwt1971 said:

Great!, was disappointed this was non-functional on release after seeing the cool airflow physics in action at the private preview presentation. Also very pleasantly surprised SU2 beta is very soon, looking forward to testing this out.
 

I also read some account of people who thought they experienced wake turbulence, but this specific account was in the air and not from the ground:

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/wake-turbulence-does-not-seem-to-work/671878/10

But in most cases, people weren't experiencing wake turbulence, as that bug thread shows. I can't say I myself have bothered to test it out, as I have spent half my time in Career Mode so far and there is almost never any other airplane taking off in Career Mode from the small airports that are given to me in Career Mode.

In any case, I'm glad that they fixed it. And the visualization of the wake turbulence looks really cool!

Edited March 15, 20251 yr by abrams_tank

Yep good to see them fixing their mistakes for features they told us would be working from release, seems as though SU2 might be a big step forward generally 🤞

42 minutes ago, abrams_tank said:

I also read some account of people who thought they experienced wake turbulence, but this specific account was in the air and not from the ground:

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/wake-turbulence-does-not-seem-to-work/671878/10

But in most cases, people weren't experiencing wake turbulence, as that bug thread shows. I can't say I myself have bothered to test it out, as I have spent half my time in Career Mode so far and there is almost never any other airplane taking off in Career Mode from the small airports that are given to me in Career Mode.

Right, didn't watch the video properly.. per what Seb says it *is* functional currently on your plane and real-time traffic, but only issue is multi-player? Will need to specifically look out for this and test it now with SU1. In any case, if they're fixing it further for SU2 that's good, and also good about the wake turbulence visualization coming in SU2.
 

20 hours ago, MarcG said:

Yep good to see them fixing their mistakes for features they told us would be working from release, seems as though SU2 might be a big step forward generally 🤞

Yeah, SU2 also supposedly fixes the VRAM issues. Crossing my fingers and hoping SU2 is a good Sim Update.  SU1 was pretty good, hope they can keep it up.