Yes it was an issue in 2020 to. never got attention in the forums on my post though.
Very weird, i cannot actually remember this being an issue back then, at least via VATSIM. Last time I played FS2020 was pre SU16 though. I might have to reinstall this weekend and test.
Iâve gone back to look at older FS2020 videos (more than 1 year) and it doesnât seem like it was a bug?
Anyway, I do hope it gets resolved soon!
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One year after release this issue is still present.. What a shame
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It must not have been as big of an issue, since to my recollection, no one ever asked me to fix it in vPilot, like they did immediately with 2024.
I think the bug you are talking about is the gear extend/retract loop bug that came with fs2024. The gear visible from short distance is present in fs2020, even worse in vr because the camera is more zoomed back.
SU4 Beta .16 issue still present 
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Iâm referring to the bug where gear are not down on arrivals when flying on VATSIM.
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This needs to be fixed! Huge immersion breaker!
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Any chance we could do a separate Ticket focusing only on the Vatsim issue? Iâm sure they will only eventually fix the LOD thingy. Maybe you could implement a fix in the Vpilot client? I donât know what could be possible
(a) Gear not actually down in viewed MP aircraft (A Vatsim MP issue)
or
(b) Gear is down but not displaying (LOD issue)
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Definitely B. I certainly wouldnât bother people here about an issue like A.
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As far as I can tell (refer to my longish post above for details) the VATSIM issue and the LOD issue are one and the same.
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even with OLOD 200 same thingâŠ. I guess itâs because they needed to fit the game to the PS as well. ever since the version for xbox come out this sim MSFS2020 has been continuously downgradedâŠ.
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Next Beta, no solution
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I spent the last 2 days planespotting and I can not reproduce the severity of this issue described here.
I am using AIG models with external.injector (BATC) and I see main- and nosegear on departing and landing traffic on almost all models. Only some B777 (eg. THAI Airways) have no gear after landing.
Else i see the gear up to a distance of about 500m at default zoom level. Beyond this point I can not see them bit I am not sure if this is because of them dissapearing or simply being to small.
Because I noticed that I struggled to see the nose gear of A320s further away than 300m but this was simply because the structure is too small. The wheels were still visible as dark grey blobs.
Overall - at least for the last and the current SU4 build - it is absolutely acceptable for AI traffic models except for very few exceptions which seems to be a problem of the model and not the sim, as it only affects certain models).
So those withthis issue: are you saying you dont see any landing gears no matter how close you are, or are you just demanding to see them even a mile away when you zoom in?
I would really like to understand the issue so I can try to reproduce it.
No itâs not. I have to be really close to FSLTL aircraft in order to see the front landing gear, a bit further back to see the main gear, in VRâŠ. In 2D itâs still bad.
Floating aircraft is really not the way this is supposed to be so they need to fix this.
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Yes, with FSLTL models I have this issue as well.
But not with 99% of AIG models.
So this is telling me it is less of a SIM issue but more a model issue.
I am on VR, by the way.
I dont know wich aig models you have, but i have the same problem with both fsltl and aig, along with default traffic models. Nosegear vanish first and shortly after the main gears vanish. Im btw also in vr. In vr the objectLOD is worse then in 2D mode.
This is as i have written before a 100% hardcoded LOD issue. FSLTL developers have this issue in the FAQ, if this had been a model issue they would had been able to fix it a long time ago.
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Yes, as I wrote this happens for me as well. But it happens at the distance of about 500m.
A distance where - at default zoom level - it is barely noticeable.
With FSLTL models I have several models where landing aircraft dont have any landing gear, even when getting very close.
With AIG I only saw this with a B777, so I wondered if you all refer to this. But apparently you complain about the general culling and request the distance to be increased.
I understand now. Thank you.
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