Add wake for formation flight

@Annobis wrote:

Hello !

I am a newbie in SITL (this is my first post).
I would like to use this simulator to control a fixed-wing drone that would be flying in the wake of another drone, so that the drone behind would save energy by using that wake to reduce the throttle.

So basically, I have the equations of the wake of a certain plane, and I would like to be able to “add” them in the SITL simulator so that the plane I am simulating would be flying as if he was in the wake.

I’ve looked already in the C++ files of ArduPlane, but it will take me a loooong time to find out where I could add these wake equations. Is there anyone familiar enough with the code to indicate where I should be looking for that?

Thanks a lot !

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