Aircraft appear as uniform bold specks across a variety of distances...

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I totally agree with you!

I'm having trouble remembering, but was it 1942: The Pacific Air War that had distant planes a light grey speck, and the closer they got the darker they got until they changed to an actual LOD model?

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Distance and AC identification is the biggest immersion killer in flight sims today. Fixing that would totally change the game for the better.

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Originally Posted by speculum jockey

I'm having trouble remembering, but was it 1942: The Pacific Air War that had distant planes a light grey speck, and the closer they got the darker they got until they changed to an actual LOD model?

You are right

Actually I found it ridiculously hard to track a RAF plane in a dogfight. It's impossible for me to dive on a target without loosing sight as soon as I hve a quick check at my instrument panel.

Planes color and shining need to be improved drastically !

By the way in term of sighting dist nothing better than to report to an USAAF survey (see attached file) . Pls bear in mind that an F16 silhouette might represent 2 time the size of that of a 109 and the the much greater speed of the merge reduce the sighting dist too

~S!