Please fix this annoying LOD bug in the next patch

[jermin]

No matter perfect landscape or excellent landscape I play in, I encounter this LOD bug in game. Any single piston engine fighter, no matter friendly or foe, will become barely visible at the range approximately from 500m to 1000m, especially on my 12 o'clock or 6 o'clock and will be visible again once within 500m.

When the problematic aircraft is on my 12 o'clock, I can "fix" this problem by entering gunsight view, where I can see it clearly, although I have to have an idea from which direction it comes from in the first place. But this trick is unavailable when it's on your 6.

I guess that the bug is caused by the airplane surface reflection effect whose original purpose is to make the aircraft glows at a certain angle and distance. But due to the outdated graphics engine, the aircraft merely blends into the background, making it disappear.

Thanks to this bug, I don't know how may times I have lost the bandit in my windscreen and on my tail in icon-off servers.

I have tried setting the object lighting to flat, switching to excellent mode, trying different screen resolutions, playing with different AA and AF settings and trying different video card settings. But none of them fixed the problem.

I've had this problem since years ago when I was playing on a comletely different PC. So I don't think it's an individual phenomenon.

Dear TD, would you please provide an option to completely turn off the reflection effect on the aircraft?