There's some very solid points to this pic, and there's some that need to be adressed as well. The close up perspective of the aircraft is excellent. The props look like they're going to slice your hair off. Good coloring on the fuselage as well. You've created great depth, it's easy to look "into" this pic, lots of scenery to look at and you've thrown in a bit of cumulus, well positioned and looking quite realistic. (no hard horizintal lines at the bottom of the clouds..that's a good thing) You set the overall pic up really well.

 Now there seems to be some serious blurring issues here. The ground scenery hasn't loaded as yet i'd imagine. The lettering on the aircraft seems distorted as well. Why don't you try another pic, show a lot of scenery like you did here, but try to get everything in the pic in sharper focus. If you can't, maybe we can look at your FS9 configuration. There's a formula or two some use that vastly improves the overall sharpness and focus of scenery, depending on how capable your video card is. I think Soui probably has a word or two to say about those configuration changes. They can work magic.

You're definately heading in the right direction here, with a tweek or two you'll be winning contests in no time!

Okay, Then how about this?

You're definately in need of some cfg and/or vid card tweeks. Start maybe by upping the mip mapping in FS9 a touch. (ask if you need directions here). Do you have AA and/or antroscopic filtering set high on your vid card? Look for those settings in your vid card and reduce their values. Then let's have another pic ok?