A bad case of the wobbels (plane wobbling!)

[Wolf8312]

I was flying back from a successsful airport raid but took a bit of damage on the way back (you should see the other guy!) but everything seemed OK until almost home my plane started wobbling. Well in VR this was an incredibly, queasy, and very realistic sensation and I loved every minute of it! That said I never want it to happen ever again, so anyone know what I did wrong or how to stop it should it ever occur again? Sorry new to Moscow and these new birds and forgot the name of the plane (hassle loggging back in in VR) but I think it was I6, its the first russian plane with the big nose! Lol yes bit of a noob!  

[OrLoK]

I was flying back from a successsful airport raid but took a bit of damage on the way back (you should see the other guy!) but everything seemed OK until almost home my plane started wobbling. Well in VR this was an incredibly, queasy, and very realistic sensation and I loved every minute of it! That said I never want it to happen ever again, so anyone know what I did wrong or how to stop it should it ever occur again? Sorry new to Moscow and these new birds and forgot the name of the plane (hassle loggging back in in VR) but I think it was I6, its the first russian plane with the big nose! Lol yes bit of a noob!  

Could it have been turbulence? Ive not encountered it before in a sim and it was very disconcerting when it first occurred.

[AndyJWest]

That's the I-16. As for wobble, if it came on after damage, I wonder if you'd had an elevator shot off or something? It isn't very stable to start with, and that could make it quite a handful. Otherwise I suppose it could be down to a VR hardware fault, or simply the headset being loose, but without more details we aren't likely to be able to help much. If it happens again, and isn't simply do to enemy gunfire (or diving way too fast - you can loose control surfaces like that too, though if you were raiding an airfield, I doubt you'd have ever got high enough to do it)), make another post with more details. For a start, we will need to know which VR set you are using.

[Willy__]

Could it have been turbulence? Ive not encountered it before in a sim and it was very disconcerting when it first occurred.

 

 

Damage can make the plane wobble. I remember once on mp, I was flying the F4 and at some point of the sortie the plane started wobbling, the nose started going left/right, like I was kicking the rudder. At the time I thought it was a bug, but looking at the logs I checked that I received damage (it said 0.5% damage or something on the logs) and by looking at the time table I can confirm that the wobbling started after the damage I receive. What is strange is the fact that the plane was flying just fine, and by the % of damage I reached the conclusion that one bullet or two hit me that made the wobbling. 

Edited April 14, 2017 by JAGER_Staiger

[Wolf8312]

Oh no its definately not a VR problem Andy and is very authentic and realistic feeling. More likely to be the damage as Jager suggests I think it either didnt happen or I didnt notice it for a while afterwards though! I never considered turbulance thats a possibility but I dont think so then I've only ever really experienced turbulance on an actual plane and this wobble seemed a little too consistent to be turbulence whereas I would imagine turbulance would come on and off in waves.

Edited April 14, 2017 by TheNoobleWurtha

[=TBAS=Sshadow14]

You could have lost the rudder... later while rtb..
You can take damage to rudder then later while using it. it snaps off..

Some planes can fly without Vertical stabilizer (rudder) but if you turn with them the Adverse yaw takes over and nose starts to oscilate left and right and without a rudder its hard to stop..

Sometimes lowering gear can help stabalise the plane as it creates to = drag forces away from planes pivot point.
but thats in a real plane not sure if thats modeled in game

[Finkeren]

The I-16 with its short, stubby fuselage and nearly all the weight concentrated in the first few feet of the aircraft is an exceptionally directionally unstable aircraft, only the MiG-3 with its long, heavy nose and short rear fuselage is arguably worse in this regard. This is also part of what makes the I-16 so damn agile. It doesn't help, that the aircraft has no adjustible trim whatsoever, meaning that it always requires control input to fly straight and level.

 

It might be that you lost a control surface, but that doesn't even have to be the case. Just a bit of superficial damage to one of the wings can do it. If one wing is damaged, it produces less lift and causes more drag than the other. In the I-16 this can be enough to start an oscillation that can't be countered by even the steadiest hand on the stick.

[ShamrockOneFive]

It could have been engine damage as well. I've noticed that engine damage and presumably some misfiring cylinders can cause the aircraft to wobble around making it quite difficult to fly at times.

[Wolf8312]

Could be engine damage and Im starting to think so as I play on expert but go full throttle way to much and forget about it! Happened again on another mission this time during which I saw no combat so...

 

Got too used to using the jetseat and knowing by vibration that my after burner was on! Thanks for the help guys

[Nibbio]

Probably rudder rods damage. In some aircraft the rudder will flutter freely in flight and cause large lateral oscillations.

[Inkophile]

I'll echo Shamrock. In addition to control surface/wing damage, engine damage can definitely make the plane starting to oscillate/wobble as it starts to run unevenly, and in a plane with terrible directional stability such as the I-16 the effect ought to be pretty pronounced.