To strict LOD rule on Aircraft landing gears!

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

Description of the issue:Gears vanish from short distance away on all aircraft. Visible Distance should be extended. Imersion breaking when watching aircraft landing in replay mode and ai/online. I know this issue have been merged in other topics but i think this should be left as a standalone issue.

If applicable, which aircraft is experiencing this issue:All aircraft

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?Yes

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?Everytime

REPRODUCTION STEPS

Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:

1.load inside the sim with any aircraft
2.Use the dronecamera
3.look at the aircraft gear and slowly pan away until the gears start to disappear.

YOUR SETTINGS

If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.

What peripherals are you using, if relevant:

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12?

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
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• Earlier today I had just turned into a runway turnoff, as a plane heading other way was passing it. Its wheels only appear as it was crossing the mouth of the turnoff about 80-100 feet away. I believe it was a Caravan.

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We need more votes to get this issue adressed.

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It’s just ridiculous how this has been for so long. What are they afraid of? Losing performance because of this?
How can they feel it’s ok to see planes without landing gear moving around like it’s nothing…
Sometimes I wonder if they use the sim…

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It’s amazing that in a sim that likes to highlights how you can see the rocks and pebbles in a stream, they’re not too fused over not being able to see missing landing gear on AI Traffic.

Realism at its finest

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Agree, same issue. The landing gear needs to be visible from greater distance.

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I’ve been complaining about this over and over again. But I have the impression that many of us simply don’t care about ai a/c visuals. And maybe because of that, MS/Asobe don’t care either. LOD restrictions (not only landing gears but many other airport objects too) have been entered with SU5(?) for XBox compatibility reasons.

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Read “performance reasons”. Then again, we are told often of the codebase differing between platforms, so that leaves us with a few possibilities:

  1. They don’t know how to fix it.
  2. They do, but can’t because the code may not be as separate as they claim.
  3. They don’t want to make the PC version look too improved over the console version.

If anyone thinks option 3 is ludicrous, look up the history of Watch_Dogs, and how Ubisoft intentionally removed features shown in their press previews for the PC version because they wouldn’t work on the consoles. A community member found a way to reinstate most of those post release.

https://www.ffxiah.com/forum/topic/43544/watch-dogs-modders-find-disabled-pc-settings

https://www.ign.com/articles/2015/07/06/watch-dogs-graphics-backlash-prompted-ubisoft-policy-review

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I think it’s a mix of 2 and 3…

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My suspicion also. XBox sales, and market are what they really care about, and they won’t do anything to jeopardise that. PC users have a choice of where they buy their products from, after all.

The LOD “issue”, like its a single thing at this point, affects other things such as runway, and taxiway signage. The pop in of they yellow signs is pretty bad, and with these new LOD levels available in 2024, you would think having some lower poly versions of these viewed much farther away would be a simple thing to achieve.

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Lost almost 10votes because of the server downtime.

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Maybe some fixes for this in su2, i hope.

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Thank you for the bug report.

We have created an internal ticket to see if our team already has this logged, and if not they will attempt to reproduce the issue and create a new bug report. This item is now marked as feedback-logged. If there is an existing bug report or one is created, we will move this thread to bug-logged.

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SU2 Beta did not fix the problem

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Screenshot 2025-03-31 093653
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SU2…We hope they will fix it asap

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This image, for me, just says they don’t use the SIM. They might load the flight but they don’t use it.
It’s just for checking some feature/problem and that’s it.
If they used the sim, this would be fixed a long time ago…

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Yeah. This is even worse in mfs2020 VR. But never got fixed in this 4.5years. I was hoping this would be fixed in mfs2024, but to my big disapointment no it havent.

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2024.. will it be the turning point?..we’ll see…

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With the new BETA it is not resolved.

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Is it me or why can’t I find the BUG on the April 10th, 2025 Development Update - Microsoft Flight Simulator List?
Will the devs investigate to this. We have actually 78 votes ?!

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