How often do you have to go around?
Wade Hasbrouck writes:
I have found spotting traffic in MSFS is unrealistically hard to do, unless
you turn on the little red labels for the planes that they have ...
I'm pleased to hear that, as I manage to spot only about one aircraft
in ten when I'm advised of traffic. Even turning in every which way
to look for it doesn't help, and if I find it it rarely seems to be
where ATC told me it would be (four o'clock could be anywhere from
three to nine).
Much easier to spot a Cessna on a 3 mile final to Renton from the Renton
downwind in real life than in MSFS. This proably because the traffic in
flight sim isn't more than a pixels wide until are basically on top of them.
It helps to run at 1600x1200, but it's still hard to make out the
shape of the aircraft until it's quite near. I'm not sure what
purpose seeing traffic serves in MSFS, anyway, since the simulator
doesn't simulate much else having to do with traffic and I have yet to
see any real conflicts.
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