More realistic (incl sometimes worse) visibility

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Hi there,
I am closing this thread as it touches upon a couple of different topics with more votes than this. You may want to vote for these topics:

@RoninBlue

I’d like to see more realistic visibility overall.

Ability to change Meteorological Visibility / RVR

The current weather system does not allow a visibility below approximately 3000 m (aerosol density 100%) and no low visibility take-offs and or landings are therefore possible. It is possible to put the cloud ceiling on ground level, but precise control of visibility / RVR is unavailable currently. Also “aerosol” sounds fancy but its not very practical it would be better to change it to visibility / RVR with absolute values in meters / km or miles rather than %.

@RoninBlue

I can currently see almost every runway light and airport beacon within 20-30 miles even in the daytime. I would expect these lights to be all but invisible during the day, and sometimes even difficult to spot at night from a few miles away. It seems like just dimming the lights quite a bit could achieve this.

Unrealistic airport lighting distances

Title says it all, breaking down the issues as follows: Approach and REIL lights are way too visible (bright) and visible from too far way. In real life, it’s very difficult to find an airport, especially in cityscapes where there are a lot of lights. In the picture attached, the distance to that airport is over 20nm away (look just below the wing, can see the approach and REILs). You would never be able to see these lights at that distance. Conversely, have noticed that the airport beacon…