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Can white trails from wingtips be turned off?

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When I take off in aircraft I often see white trails coming off the wingtips. Is this FSX or addon dependent? Is there a way to turn them off?

FSX: PMDG 744/MD11/JS41/736/737/738/739, CS752/753/763/C130, SimCheck A300, Leonardo MD82, MJC DH8D, Aerosoft CRJ7/CRJ9/A318/A319/A320/A321, RAZBAM Metroliner, ORBX Global, FlyTampa KBUF/OMDB/TNCM/VHHX, ActiveSky Next

DCS: A-10C II/F-16C/AH-64D/F-15E/KA-50 III/Mi-24/Persian Gulf/Syria/F-15C

XP11: FF 752/753, iniBuilds A306, HotStart TBM900

MSFS: Fenix A320, FS2Crew Fenix A320, FS2Crew Pushback Express, PMDG B77W, ActiveSky FS, Drzewiecki Design UUEE

Ultimately it would depend on whether you could locate the effect file and disable it in your FSX directory. Although you'd probably have to be model specific for most people to help I'd imagine. Having said that, it is realistic to see vorticies form on the wingtips, but we all have our preferences!

Toby Rottner

 

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When I take off in aircraft I often see white trails coming off the wingtips. Is this FSX or addon dependent? Is there a way to turn them off?

 

First, back up your aircraft.cfg file you are going to edit! Then try the aircraft.cfg of the particular aircraft you want to eliminate the contrails on and scroll down to [EFFECTS] contrail=fx_contrail and place // in front of "contrail". That should eliminate it.

 

Flusifix FSX has different size trails you can try instead.

Ric Elmore

 

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Thanks Nikka. That's what I was looking for.

FSX: PMDG 744/MD11/JS41/736/737/738/739, CS752/753/763/C130, SimCheck A300, Leonardo MD82, MJC DH8D, Aerosoft CRJ7/CRJ9/A318/A319/A320/A321, RAZBAM Metroliner, ORBX Global, FlyTampa KBUF/OMDB/TNCM/VHHX, ActiveSky Next

DCS: A-10C II/F-16C/AH-64D/F-15E/KA-50 III/Mi-24/Persian Gulf/Syria/F-15C

XP11: FF 752/753, iniBuilds A306, HotStart TBM900

MSFS: Fenix A320, FS2Crew Fenix A320, FS2Crew Pushback Express, PMDG B77W, ActiveSky FS, Drzewiecki Design UUEE

Great! In many addons the vortices are there all through the flight, which is quite irritating.

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