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Originally Posted by rocker_lx
But I seem to have understood that tracer rounds where jiggling and after a short distance followed a complete other path than the conventional ammuntion due to the different ballistics.
This was at least what the guys from the B17-II simulator where doing some years ago, their tracers had smoke and where jiggling in the air. Never seen more convincing tracers in any sim since.
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One of the oldest urban legends of the flight sim community, and B-17 II was heavily involved in creating it. Nevertheless, tracers do
not behave like that. They do
not jiggle around in random zig-zag patterns while still maintaining their rough trajectory. It's physically impossible, and it would make them completely useless.
As others have already pointed out, this is purely the camera shaking that causes tracers to look like that. Watch any footage where the camera is not mounted on the firing platform, and the tracers are straight lines. Just like shown in today's video
