Bouncing needles

[II./JG1_Krupinski]

I've been playing with this and have found a few things.

First, I don't have a lot of CoD cockpit time so take this with a grain of salt. I use full real settings as the starting point. and using the German France freeflight quick mission/

I first noticed the shaking on my first flight, which happened to start about 10 seconds before I lubricated my wind screen for a total of 10 seconds flight time. Okay, bad engine management.

Determining the best manner to manage my engine I still noticed the shake, even with oil temp maintaining between 40 and 60 C and water a little above 80C. Tooling around I am setting the engine up @ 1.2 ATA and about 2100-2200 RPM.

I was able to fly to England and back. Over England, I was able to see no shake for about 30 seconds. What I had done was dove to about 800 meters ASL. So a couple things were at play here, lower altitude and faster airspeed. The shaking returned as i climbed and slowed. I thought it was speed at this point.

Starting another quick mission, I tried to tool around at a minimum 450kph. Still, shaking happened. Try this at lower altitude, its shaking.

All manner of tests using full real, I came up empty handed.

Finally giving up and not being able to take the shake, I turn of turbulence in the settings as a last ditch hope of finding what's going on. BINGO! no more shake.

So this shake that I thought was my bad engine management, seems to be caused by turbulence. I am going to test this more tonight.