DC-8-62 'Jumps'

[flflyguy]

I have the DC-8-62 and the snazzy Braniff textures with it.

When I load the plane loads, it starts jumping every so often. It makes the sounds for this too, the whole airframe landing jolt, and the tires squeak when they touch the ground again. I have no idea what to even try. It is just this a/c. Any ideas?

[skyking]

Did a search on FlightSim and came up with a bunch of replies. Other than the ones requiring some modifications to the aircraft config file, here's one of the replies:

This can be caused by the terrain loading under the aircraft as you cycle from tower view to external view.what happens is when in tower view the sim is struggling to render all the autogen and terrain bmps and models,then you switch to external view and as the sim had swapped out all the close up info it now reloads the terrain data causing the aircaft to jump up and down.It can happen only on certain aircraft as these may be a bit higher in the polly count/texture load causing the sim to lag a bit .....

I too have this happen on a number of DIFFERENT aircraft, HJG AND others. I just live with it.

[aerofoto - HJG Admin]

I concurr with "SKYKING's" comments !

What is observed there shouldn't be a constant thing, but rather, something that occurs for a few seconds (if even that) during the loading process. It can also occorr when taxiing across some airport sceneries too .... and again only momentarily.

Mark C
BOG/CO

[flflyguy]

Ok thank you for the explanations. It did seem to do it while I was switching views so the tower view seems to explain. As noted, it is not a huge deal and one can live with it. Thanks.