You have stated having flown a lot of planes even a P51

P51D was backseat, where the fusalage fuel tank once was. It belonged to a friend, who has passed away. Still flown a lot of different planes, though.

Visibility is, IMHO, not the strongest feature of X-Plane 10 ( inherited after all from XP9...) 

 

I can accept, and even like it when flying low, but as soon as I get to the higher levels, that halo kills me.

 

In RL there are so may factors influencing it... Just recently we had that interesting plugin which even took into consideration moisture ( one of the factors ), but then, there are many others...

 

By far I always preferred the simple, but rather effective way MSFS uses for "visibility rendering". It's good at all normally flyable flight levels, up to those I usually "fly" my PMDG 737 NGX at. 

 

Flying the WL 777 at cruise is a ... "forget about it and fly this thin(gy)"...

 

Then, there is that strange way of rendering some higher level cloud formations, like what we get when using that other plugin that injects GFS data. Have you noticed that Ac, As, etc... have that donut-like appearance too? Just like the visibility halo :-/

 

BUT! at the lower levels I feel ok with both sims. Attached two shots, taken at the same time and weather ( RW ) on XP10 and P3D... No way do get it on ELITE ( no external views ... :-)  ) nor in DCS ( no Portugal scenery :-/ )

 

XPX:

 

 

P3D:

 

I have to agree, the blurriness in X-Plane when you fly at high-altitude is really off putting, which is why I mainly use X-Plane for VFR flights and use FSX for other flights. It doesn't blend into the blurriness, but instead the scenery quality suddenly (in a straight line) drops off into a blur, and just looks awful.

 

However, IMO, X-Plane looks far better at lower altitudes that FSX does, and depicts it much more realistically.

Same here, tony. I got jardesign a320 but after doing sime 10 flights i made my mind and switched to fsx for airliners, as i own ngx and axe... But you cant beat xpx for VFR :smile:

 

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P51D was backseat, where the fusalage fuel tank once was. It belonged to a friend, who has passed away. Still flown a lot of different planes, though.

 

Oh ... I see. From this perspective I also might consider to claim having flown A32x, B737, A340, ATR, Dash Q, Iljushin (don't remember), Cessna 172, 208, 152, Socata TB21, ... (for the latter 2, though it is true having flown them myself).

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Oh ... I see. From this perspective I also might consider to claim having flown A32x, B737, A340, ATR, Dash Q, Iljushin (don't remember), Cessna 172, 208, 152, Socata TB21, ... (for the latter 2, though it is true having flown them myself).

 

 

I deleted my last reply. Have I ever claimed to have flown the P-51 as PIC? No. Did I reply, to set your mind straight? Yes. You're the one that implied I flew it. I've always mentioned it was a back seat thing.