If you fly toward the sun at all, then your windscreen flickers bright, dark, bright, dark, at like 24 frames per second from the shadow of the propeller. This is nothing like real life. I have been in enough small planes to know you can barely even see the prop with the naked eye much less see flickering shadows from it if you are focused on the ground or surroundings outside the airplane.
I don’t see how anyone could’ve tested this sim and thought, “Yea, incredibly annoying and distracting shadows from the prop that look like they are being filmed with an old movie camera, that’s beautiful, let’s keep it!”
Then when you turn away from the sun a bit and look at the prop shadow being cast out on the wing, same thing, this low frame rate mess of a shadow just spinning away out there. Total immersion breaker.
Is there a way the prop shadow can be totally eliminated or give us an option to turn off prop shadows and reduce the visibility of the prop disc itself? Can the devs just set the prop shadow property to not transmit, or the plane to not receive the shadow from the prop object?
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While it’s definitely a bug that needs to be addressed, I’ve flown around 20 different prop planes today and have only seen it happen in one, the Cirrus.
It’s really not very realistic. Please create a BUG!
Fly away from the sun with the VL3, then you will see a nice orange circle 
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I’ve tried one flight so far. Hopped in the DA40 NG and the prop looked horrendous. Then there was that weird, huge flickering shadow thing. I was having too many other issues with maintaining airspeed, so I ignored it.
nVidia driver 566.14
nVidia App
Using DLSS/DLAA Quality.
(I’m going to play around with the App and other graphics settings today.)
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This probably has something to do with how developers can use the new propeller system within the SDK.
I’m going to submit this as a bug. It is flat out not a simulation of real life in its current state and thus, should be fixed so as not to look this way.
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Yes, I noticed this a few days ago. Not nice, so I had to change my plane.
Similarly, the appearance of the ground texture/marking also looks awful through the rotating propellers, for example with lines becoming dotted.
I much prefer the old-style saturn-ring type appearance.
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Interesting. The high prop speed is too fast for the smart lighting/shadow engine.
Yes the devs will have to tag the prop as “no shadow/reflection”, unless rpm is below frame rate (when the shadow/reflection is ok)
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Yah the blade shadows on the plane even when they are spinning is really annoying. I’ve seen it on a couple planes.
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