Contact sight problem.. really something to patch!!

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I just started flying IL2-COD (been on IL2-46) online at 1440 resolution. Being
I fly a lot of 46, the spotting of a/c in COD was immediately noticeable. First
I measured the range to target with the gunsight to make sure the a/c were
properly scaled, and they were fine. Next I started to look for threads such as
this one and the other called "Target Visibility". Both threads are excellent.

Im one of those that refuse to back down my desktop or in game resolution to
get a bigger and sooner first pixel sighting. I can't stand sims on lower res.
So I was wondering, if anyone has done any in depth investigation on the
effects of the anti-aliasing and filtering settings as a function of visibility and
range?

Here we want to get rid of the jaggies and have smoothed and dithered a/c
graphics to make it look real, but are these same features also reducing our
long distance a/c profile visibility? Does it have an effect on the switching
between pixel and LOD switching? Just some thoughts.