Has anyone else seen this from the Kodiak? It is some effect of heat from the exhaust. The top (2) images are from earlier in the week but I noticed it beginning to develop again today during my approach (3rd image). It is not as obvious in that image but it had its own color. There is always a bit of realistic heat distortion, but in these cases it becomes opaque to solid.  I have not seen this with any other aircraft in MSFS.

Never seen that in my Kodiak. 

27 minutes ago, fppilot said:

I have not seen this with any other aircraft in MSFS.

I’ve seen this with the afterburner on the f104g....but not lately.

I wonder what the egt is reading when this starts?

Edited February 19, 20224 yr by DD_Arthur

Oh, never seen that from the Kodiak.

5 minutes ago, MrBitstFlyer said:

Oh, never seen that from the Kodiak.

Looks like his has a bad ECM..

4 hours ago, DD_Arthur said:

I wonder what the egt is reading when this starts?

Using the WT Nxi and captured this from the MFD.  But did not enter the Nxi Engine screen of the G1000 Nxi in the Kodiak.  Certainly nothing in the red here.  Interestingly I have only seen this with this particular livery.  But I question what influence the livery would have.  Why? The issue is quite fluid, dynamically changing in shape as if affected by airflow, and also visible from the left seat over the left side of the Kodiak's nose. It also continued after landing, during taxi, and when parked before shutting down. I let the plane sit for 20 minutes and then restarted the Kodiak and it was still there.  I would understand if it was translucent representing the distortion from heat.  But in the images that I posted earlier you can see the solid presentation that has occurred.  Strange, and to this time limited to this aircraft model.

 

Edited February 20, 20224 yr by fppilot

Do you have the Red Wing Super Constellation installed by any chance?

It's been known to cause that kind of issue with a couple of other addon aircraft, so try removing it from your community folder (or just disable it if you're running MSFS addon linker) and see if that fixes the problem. 

If you don't have that particular aircraft installed, then try removing/disabling everything else in the community folder and see if that solves it. 

14 hours ago, ndts said:

If you don't have that particular aircraft installed, then try removing/disabling everything else in the community folder and see if that solves it. 

I changed addon liveries and completed a 2.3 hour flight today.  It did not occur.  I find it odd that it could be caused by a livery because it has fluid movement and sometimes a small portion is seen from the left seat in the cockpit.

Because of how liveries are set up in MSFS, they can do some odd stuff (some 3rd party liveries for Carenado aircraft disable the in-sim tablet as an example), but I'd wager that what you're seeing is more likely a conflict from another aircraft or some other modification you've got installed, since I think the exhaust effect is a default MSFS effect that liveries wouldn't change.

 

21 minutes ago, ndts said:

Because of how liveries are set up in MSFS, they can do some odd stuff (some 3rd party liveries for Carenado aircraft disable the in-sim tablet as an example), but I'd wager that what you're seeing is more likely a conflict from another aircraft or some other modification you've got installed, since I think the exhaust effect is a default MSFS effect that liveries wouldn't change.

I am an avid user of the Addons Linker and always have a minimum of items in my Community folder.  Currently (2) Navigraph related addons, the AFC_Bridge driver for my Honeycomb controls, (2) Kodiak liveries, and (4) freeware addon airport sceneries.  The sceneries are not the same as I had loaded when this occurred last week.  However both times this has occurred was with the same livery that you can see in my images above. I only have (3) payware aircraft installed in the Official side, the Kodiak, and the Carenado Mooney and Seneca. I believe rather than a Community folder conflict, it may instead be graphics related.  It has not occurred until well into say a 2 hour flight.  Once it appears it will not go away.