Some things to make you stop and stare ...

[PeterPanPan]

I have to add a few more now ...

1. Aircraft causing shadows on other aircraft. In close formation, just watch the wing shadow from your wingman creep over your airframe - fab!

2. Ground shadows from patchy clouds. Makes the landscape so realistic that at first you don't notice it ... because of course it's just normal every day nature.

3. From a previous post in this thread, it appears that not just carb icing is modeled, but also pitot tube icing. The latter is the tube that pokes out into the airflow and measures your airspeed. If it gets clogged with ice (perhaps in cloud) you will get airspeed indication errors. I don't know yet if pitot heat or carb heat is modeled to avoid these RW issues, but I guess it's only a matter of time.

4. Canopy fogging up when in cloud. A really nice touch - not perfect yet as its animation is a little stuttery/rough - but a great touch none the less.

5. Tyres getting shredded to the rims and tyres still spinning on an upturned crashed aircraft.

PPP