Visibility < 6000 m. Still a problem

After some flights testing, I have a problem with the option "Ignore Reduced Visibility".

When it is on, the visibility is determined by the option marked in the "Max Surface Visibility" section, meanwhile the visibility from the METAR is above 6000 metres. The problem is when the real visibility from the METAR is about 6000 metres. In some cells the visibility is over this limit, but in other cells the visibility is under.

This generates a strange weather depiction, with some cells showing a far visibility (40, 50, 60, 80 miles...), and others a reduced one (less than 6000 metres) in a near space. Going from a "normal" cell to a cell with reduced visibility, creates a foggy layer very annoying. This is very relevant when flying with a fast aircarft. You can see a clear day, and suddenly a foggy day, between seconds.

I think the "Ignore Reduced Visibility" should be relaxed until 0 metres, as an additional option. This means the visibility will always be the same, avoiding the creation of zones with very different visibility values between them.

I have checked this posibility with AS2012, and definitively the visibility depiction is really stable. Not real but stable.

Hi Harpic

It has already been implemented, check out tomorrows 2.22 release version.

Regards
Stephen

Hi Jean-Paul

I will look into that, but the visibility layers extend from the ground up and always increase in visibility as you climb higher. If possible, we set the transition levels within cloud layers. But we never decrease the vis in a layer. What may have happened is you moved into an adjacent cell where the vis was better. We do limit the max change in vis between cells, perhaps we need to limit this a bit more. Unfortunately, FSX changes the vis almost instantly when you pass from one zone to another, and has large jumps when the vis is better. There are plenty of small graduations for poor vis but not the other way around, so it can jump from 48km to 64km to 80km etc. it will also depend on your Max Surface Vis setting, the higher that is the fewer transition layers can be used.

I will see about minimising the changes as much as I can.

Regards
Stephen