Simviation Forum - Layer of Haze at 3000 Feet

May 21^st, 2010 at 1:42pm

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Lately I have been noticing a haze no matter where I fly in the world. It is not my glasses, I have cleaned them. Alaska,Spain, England, Boston, it does not matter. If I fly high alt, it looks as though the ground has light fog and if I fly low, below 3000' it seems, the blue sky overhead washes out but then the ground textures come to full color. Anybody have experience with this? I have disabled REX, ASA, no help. Maybe hardware?

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Reply #1 - May 21^st, 2010 at 2:13pm

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No hardware issues here. It's just your current weather settings. If you don't like them, just edit them in the advanced weather options.

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Reply #2 - May 22^nd, 2010 at 11:24am

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I went into the settings as you suggested and I cannot disable that thin layer from occurring. I can move it up or down. I use REX and ASA and usually bypass the FSX weather. You would think that after 15 years of simming, I would know what I'm doing. But this is the first time I have encountered this situation. Thanks for the reply. I might try to post a screen shot but first I have to find out how that is done. Skip

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Reply #3 - May 22^nd, 2010 at 11:55am

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bunky wrote on May 22^nd, 2010 at 11:24am:

I might try to post a screen shot but first I have to find out how that is done. Skip

http://205.252.250.26/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1274395685#4 - here you go! Wink

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Reply #4 - May 22^nd, 2010 at 12:29pm

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The haze layer is based on your Weather-Visibility settings.

You can eliminate it altogether by setting Vis. to unlimited.

If you wish to limit Vis. (for realism or to help performance)you can set the Base to 0' and the Top to some altitude higher than you will fly. Do this on the Visibility tab (..Weather>User Defined>Customize>Advanced). Either type in the alt. or grab-drag the top and bottom lines of the layer with the mouse (cursor will change from 4 point to 2 point arrow to grab the lines).

If you want your new settings to be the default, then save them to your default flight.

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Reply #5 - May 22^nd, 2010 at 3:19pm

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Here are some screen shots. maybe?

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Reply #6 - May 22^nd, 2010 at 6:01pm

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Looks about right to me...

I set my "clear" visibility to around 5-10 miles maximum, which generally represents what its like in real life when you are up in the air.
You can rarely see detail ahead in an aeroplane, due to fog, mist, smoke, dust, rain, low cloud, etc, etc, in the atmosphere!
Outside of that 5 mile radius, the ground detail is greatly reduced!

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Reply #7 - May 22^nd, 2010 at 8:50pm

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Based on your screenshots it appears that as you approach the base of the cumulus where the rising moist air condenses into visible clouds, the sim is cutting down the visbility to represent the increasing moisture content - maybe not

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Reply #8 - May 23^rd, 2010 at 2:01am

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olderndirt wrote on May 22^nd, 2010 at 8:50pm:

Based on your screenshots it appears that as you approach the base of the cumulus where the rising moist air condenses into visible clouds, the sim is cutting down the visbility to represent the increasing moisture content - maybe not

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Yes, precisely

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