Hello Fellow Simmers,I noticed something abit strange during my last Demo flight. I took off in the Baron at 6:00 pm and at 2000 feet flew towards the setting Sun in clear weather. With no moon insight I noticed the suns reflection in the water to be about 45 degrees off from directly inline with the sun. I would have expected the Suns reflection in the water to be directly inline with the sun. Maybe it is just my machine. If anyone is interested, maybe you could verify my findings and if this subject has already been posted, my apologies. I don't check the forums as often as I used to.Thanks,,, and fly safeDave

Your observation is perfectly valid, I had no problem verifying it. Even worse - the whole thing has a shape of a cone with the apex of this cone nowhere near the line between your eyes and the Sun - like you said it is to off well to the right.I have seen other reflection anomalies in this demo - for example I see very strong reflections when the Sun is high and I am looking almost straight down at water - in fact there should be little reflectivity at those angles since water absorbs most of such rays. On the other hand when the Sun is low and rays are 'skimming' - that's when you should see a lot of reflectivity but you almost see none here. So in essence we almost get reverse of reality. This leaves me to conclude that reflectivity we get is detached from any laws of physics.This should all be taken as constructive criticism by the FSX team. In my opinion they made enormous improvements to light/water as compared to FS9.Michael J.http://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/for...argo_hauler.gifhttp://sales.hifisim.com/pub-download/asv6-banner-beta.jpg

If what you describe looks like this screenshot you're probabably seeing a "Moon Reflection" through the earth. It's an FSX Demo bug that the design team has been made aware of. There's a work around thogh for now. In investigating the same anomalies a few days ago I posted this: http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=sho...ing_type=searchhttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/154583.jpg

"Moon Reflection" - oh well, you must be right. It is good they know about this bug. I wonder if they could also enhance the Sun reflections during dusk/dawn hours - in fact this is the time of the day when the Sun reflections from water should 'dazzle' but in this demo they are extremely weak.Michael J.http://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/for...argo_hauler.gifhttp://sales.hifisim.com/pub-download/asv6-banner-beta.jpg