Contact sight problem.. really something to patch!!

[6S.Manu]

Originally Posted by KeBrAnTo

+1 Absolutely agree. I don't want this to become a fly-at-6k-meters and wait for contacts trying to sneak flying by at 300 meters from the ground as in 1946, which is ridiculous.

Reread what the bolded part... in a full switch server do you really spot enemies with 5km+ of altitude difference?

Damn it.. I've stopped to fly in the most popular full-switch servers because the 95% of the pilots were flying at 100m an I could not see them from 3km (until I changed my resolution but then it's like fishing for me -> boring)...

Anyway do you agree then that planes 1km over your head should disappear too? the got camo! But still they are black dots...

Originally Posted by AMVI_Superblu

I better call this "Terrain Masking" or "Camo".
An object moving fast at an altitude let's say 500+ meters lower than you is pretty hard to see.
That was at the base of all low altitude - low drag profiles for A/G missions.
the REAL problem (IMO) is the contact disappearing after being seen, not the 'problem' of being unable to spot it at a lower altitude.

S!

Super, you are reasoning in a too much simplistic way.

Camos are effective if 100% of the requested conditions are present. Its' not like a plane gets painted and it becomes almost invisible.

I'm posting a document about aircraft camouflage: it's dated 1969 and it's sure that the explained techniques are more advanced than the WW2's ones.

Aircrafts are in "low visibility" mode (that's not 500m... it's visible at 1-2 miles on daylight) if they fly at the right altitude, if the sunlight (or moonlight) is the expected one, if there are clouds or not... and for the ground camo the plane HAVE to fly in the correct paths (the pilots have to know where to fly over)

Talking about Spitfires we have a brown-green camo who fly over the channel (blue-green) at every altitude, also provided with high visibility parts like the windshield (30 to 40 miles)... sure it has to be invisible! It can't be moderately visible (10 to 15 miles).

Here's the document:
http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bin/GetTRDoc...c=GetTRDoc.pdf