Why does my spit spin around before engine start..?

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Originally Posted by ACE-OF-ACES

So looking at the responses thus far there seems two groups that belive in one of the two statements

1) A mild wind should be able to cause a spit to sit-n-spin in the middle of a grass field
2) A mild wind should not be able to cause a spit to sit-n-spin in the middle of a grass field

Granted some have provided videos as proof, but most have nothing to do with the topic at hand. The closest video to the topic at hand shows an airliner flexing and twisting in the wind.. but not moving. Now before you consider that as proof.. Take a close look at the title of the video, i.e.

EXTREME WIND at Keflavik airport...

Now I think it is safe to say that everyone agrees a Spitfire will move in EXTREME WINDS when sitting on a slick cement runway

But again that example does not relate to what is being seen in the game

What we are seeing in the game is a 4,000+lb Spitfire sitting in a filed of grass, engine off, spinning around in what appears to be far less than EXTREME WINDS. I think Catseye nailed it by pointing out that the 'symptom' is that of the friction between the tires and the ground being too small, which in turn allows the plane to spin freely. With that said, which of the two groups do you fall into?

In the group that don't assume that all the "spinning issue" was a bug, even without think a minute about WIND... And the even minor group of people that goes to FMB test things, and know that your "minor" wind isn't so "minor"... And we don't have all your "friction"assumed in a TAILWHEEL of a Spitfire... Maybe we need just some tweak, but isn't something "strange" as you all assume in the begining of the topic. Simple as that.

Test more the game and talk less in forums.