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In wet weather and after take off a horizontal single contrail and a downward one appear below my aircraft. This used to be caused by the Snow Engine Wash or Wet Engine wash effect, but didn't expect it to occur in PrecipitFX in P3Dv3. Any way to stop this from happening??

 

Regards

Joaquin Blanco

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In wet weather and after take off a horizontal single contrail and a downward one appear below my aircraft. This used to be caused by the Snow Engine Wash or Wet Engine wash effect, but didn't expect it to occur in PrecipitFX in P3Dv3. Any way to stop this from happening??

 

Regards

 

Hi Joaquin,

 

Can you post a screenshot of the issue?

 

Thank you!

Keven Menard 
Technical Director, //42
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Hello Keven

 

Unfortunately I didn't take a screenshot at the time, will do so if/when it happens again.

 

Thanks you for your reply.

Joaquin Blanco

Intel Core i9-9900K at 5Ghz, Corsair Hydro H100i RGB PLATINUM CPU cooler, Asus ROG STRIX Z390-E,Motherboard, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2080 Super 8GB GDDR6, G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32GB DDR4 3200MHz Memory, 500GB Samsung 970 EVO PLUS M.2 PCIe,2TB Samsung 860 QVO Solid State Drive, 2TB, 2 x Samsung 860 Evo 2TB, 1 x 1TB Samsung 860 Evo, Corsair RM650x 80 PLUS Gold 650W PSU.

 

 

 

It's happening to me also.  Here are some photos:

 

photo1.jpg

 

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It's happening to me also.  Here are some photos:

 

photo1.jpg

 

photo2.jpg

 

Please run PrecipitFX again to scan and modify new aircrafts in your sim.

Keven Menard 
Technical Director, //42
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Thanks for the quick reply.

 

I did scan and modify, it still happens.

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Can you paste here the [Effects] section of the affected aircraft?

Keven Menard 
Technical Director, //42
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This particular aircraft is the FSX Level-D.

 

I'm not seeing an [Effects] section in the Aircraft.config.

Note, other effects display: Engines start, contrails, etc. 

 

Here's more development:

 

- Started a default aircraft and did not have the same issue.

- Reset the flight, loaded the Level-D, the issue did not occur.

- Rebooted and started FSX, loaded the Level-D from the splash screen, no issue.

 

I made no changes so I'm not sure why it stopped.

 

I'll keep testing and will keep you posted.

I don't think this is a PrecipitFX issue. I have seen this issue for years with ActiveSky. Are you running a 3rd party weather engine? If you alt+enter out of FSX end ActiveSky it should go away. I am not sure what causes it.

Mike Keigley

 

Boeing777_Banner_Pilot.jpg

 

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This particular aircraft is the FSX Level-D.

 

I'm not seeing an [Effects] section in the Aircraft.config.

Note, other effects display: Engines start, contrails, etc. 

 

Here's more development:

 

- Started a default aircraft and did not have the same issue.

- Reset the flight, loaded the Level-D, the issue did not occur.

- Rebooted and started FSX, loaded the Level-D from the splash screen, no issue.

 

I made no changes so I'm not sure why it stopped.

 

I'll keep testing and will keep you posted.

 

Then, there is your issue!

 

Add [Effects] to the end of the document and run PrecipitFX again.

The LevelD is an FS2004 aircraft converted for FSX and at the time of development, there was no Effects section.

 

Let me know if that worked for you!

Keven Menard 
Technical Director, //42
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