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Originally Posted by mazex
I'm not old enough to have flown in 1940 but with all the coal burning etc it sure was not better than today. After a about 500 hours in small planes of various kind (not much compared to professional pilots but enough to have an opinion I think) I can say that the few days where you don't have a rather thick haze like in this game are really rare. It often happen during winter or early spring... A bright summer day with clear sky is often the worst actually  Sometimes you can start thinking there is a forest fire somewhere but nope, just that haze that is mostly moist from what I understand and not pollution. Then when you pass a break layer you suddenly go above that ground haze at say 10k feet and it's like going up from water into clear air. Rather weird effect... I think the current haze effect in the game nails it rather good - and it can be a lot worse IRL some days. Before this patch it looked all wrong with way to clear sky IMHO. Others will for sure punt in |
Maybe over land, in certain days, but making it present by default on all maps and all conditions is far far from realistic.
It's ok over south England, but not over some island map, or in the middle of the water far away from the land.
I've been around the block a bit too. This kind of hazy sky is the exception, not the the norm. It may be normal over big industrial cities in the summer, but not in the middle of the sea whenre you can't even see land.