Before this thread fades out altogether, thought I'd mention what I found to be an interesting coincidence.
Some random Youtubing Cliffs Of Dover player made a comment yesterday on one of my video's, so while I was replying I had a look at the video myself for the first time in ages.
It must have been recorded with beta patch 14413 or the official patch that followed it, whichever one introduced the 'new' propellor effects.
Check out the lighting and colours in it -
That's how the default game used to look almost exactly one year ago, and is the sort of look I was trying to get with my adjustments to the current version. I think I've got it fairly close to that, but check out those reflections on the underside of the plane. Wouldn't mind seeing those brought back in at some point.