I really love the fog in MS Flight. I just did a free flight (using VOR and ILS: I never used VOR in FSX and in MS Flight I love it!) in the RV6 and it was awesome. Just have a look at the fow below the plane here:http://www.swe-gaming.com/fsx/files/2012-03/101059_Awesome fog.jpgBut (why does there always have to be a but...?! ) what I did notice and did not like at all, is that (at least with the inclement weather preset) the fot layer suddenly pops up...! I took off and had that nice moving fog around me and SUDDENLY everything was white underneath me! I descended a little and you could see the layer of fog pop up and disappear again at a specific altitude.Anyone else noticed this? The first time it happened I thought for a while my plane had been teleported to another spot automatically... :wink:BTW I don't really want to use the mouse for flying but er... the RV6 was so twitchy all the time that I decided to check out mouse flying for a while... Man, that's relaxing...!!! But it just doesn't feel right.

You are not the only one noticing this. On the beta forum, there were complaints about this, and the Flight Team have been provided a sequence of screenshots detailing how confusing this is.You can see an airfield absolutely clearly from above, only to find it submerged in dense fog when you descend down to it. It can be easier to see an airport building from a mile away than by standing 200ft away from it.The fogged-in effect looks great, but seems to be completely detached from where the visible fog layers and the visible clouds actually are.

Yep same observation. Better than fsx but still some glitch that make it unrealistic.

Yep same observation. Better than fsx but still some glitch that make it unrealistic.

+1 , I would agree with that.

You can see an airfield absolutely clearly from above, only to find it submerged in dense fog when you descend down to it.

While I agree that the fog in Flight isn't perfect, the above actually happens with ground fog in real life. You can see the field perfectly from above (because the fog isn't that high), but when you descend to land it's pea soup. Quite a surprise, let me tell you :).Another way of putting it: Say the fog is dense enough that you can see clearly for 300ft through it, and it's 300ft high, then it'll be invisible from straight above, but once you descend into it, you can only see 300ft in front of you!

this man speaks the truth

Mouse flight = poor mans AP in Flight. Heh. These smaller aircraft really ARE twitchy. Takes a light hand to keep um stable.

Strange issue that you are having. My fog hasn't ever glitched for me.It seems to work fine and properly inhibit my view of well.... anything :Big Grin:

While I agree that the fog in Flight isn't perfect, the above actually happens with ground fog in real life. You can see the field perfectly from above (because the fog isn't that high), but when you descend to land it's pea soup. Quite a surprise, let me tell you :).Another way of putting it: Say the fog is dense enough that you can see clearly for 300ft through it, and it's 300ft high, then it'll be invisible from straight above, but once you descend into it, you can only see 300ft in front of you!

my older son ask me to explain this to him the last time we went up . He now calls it a harry potter moment :-)...

While I agree that the fog in Flight isn't perfect, the above actually happens with ground fog in real life. You can see the field perfectly from above (because the fog isn't that high), but when you descend to land it's pea soup. Quite a surprise, let me tell you :).

Yep. The fog mostly performs as it does in Real Life.Consider this - common in Sydney by the way - within fog, the visibility is about 300m, but the fog layer is barely 100m thick. At 100m altitude, the airport is probably still a km to two away, so you won't see it at all. Above the fog layer the ground looks at little blurred, but easy to see. Entering the fog is a now-you-see-it, now-you-don't experience.

Mouse flight = poor mans AP in Flight. Heh. These smaller aircraft really ARE twitchy. Takes a light hand to keep um stable.

If they are "twitchy" that is not right. The faa requires "stability" and positive stability at that. "Twitchy" is never a term I would use for a Ga aircraft...xplane generic planes-yes.

If they are "twitchy" that is not right. The faa requires "stability" and positive stability at that. "Twitchy" is never a term I would use for a Ga aircraft...xplane generic planes-yes.

It seems to me (I think this is covered in a post on here somewhere) that my controls seem far too sensitive in Flight, that makes flying seem unstable (twitchy), at least for me.Kind regards,

It depends on how you define "twitchy". To me, after flying the SportStar in real life, the control is rather spot on. You dont move that stick more then an inch, or your all over the place. It takes a very light hand to fly these small aircraft and people tend to over control them a lot. Yes Flight feels very sensitive, but real aircraft are.

How many real aircraft have you flown..cause to be honest-if they flew like they do in flight the fatality rate would be much higher than the 500 or so a year there is now? By the way-would one land an icon in the ocean in Hawaii?

While I agree that the fog in Flight isn't perfect, the above actually happens with ground fog in real life. You can see the field perfectly from above (because the fog isn't that high), but when you descend to land it's pea soup.

Thank you for your explanation. When you say, "you can see the field perfectly from above", do you just mean it can be seen well, or do you mean that you might have NO idea that there is fog over the field at all.In other words, do you find the following scenario realistic? Especially the last image seems to show no trace of anything over the field. (Not trying to doubt you or argue with you, just interested in how real this is.)