Hey Crumbso I'm not sure so far.

What I do is load each plane into the sim 1 by 1 and test them I've found that most of my jets work but I have some props that just won't show up.

And you're right I could have picked a better scheme I was really just testing out the plane.

I have found that those plane that do work appear much clearer in Fs9 than Fs2K2.

Boeingman,

FS9 is another name for FS2004.....you will hear it called that alot around the forums.
POSKY is Project Opensky as you thought.
The C-17 by Owen Hewhit can be got from Avsim, i had a look here but couldnt find it.
You may also be able to get it from Owens own page if he still has the file there.
http://www.flightsimnetwork.com/aircraft3-view/

You may be interested to know that Owen is nearly done with a completley new version of the C-17 that has been made in Gmax. May be worth waiting for that to be released.

I'm not sure what you could do to the clouds at the mo to make them look more realistic. To me thay look pretty good I don't think that switching to 2d clouds is the answer. In the third shot they look brilliant so maybe you just need to wait for some cloud addons.

could you post a pic in daylight with the cold fronts scheme please.

oh yeah and I have noticed planes looking very clear.

Good to hear from ya again.