Does disgusting windshields add realism?
hehe, well, perhaps a bit of dirt here and there, but this!!
Anyways, is there any way to clean the helo or windshields?
They said planes will get dirty, but not how to clean them, right?
Any ideas?
Cheers.
What mode are you in?
Thereās an option to clean the aircraft in the maintenance section of career mode.
I too have noticed my windscreen getting dirtier in free flight.
Bug splatters? Didnāt know bugs flew that high. 
Free flight!
And the thing is that, perhaps Iām just losing my marbles, but I could swear theyāre more dirty that day 1 of flying with this beauty.
Any similar option in Free Flight? Canāt find any.
Didnāt you know weāre testing Microsoft Bug Simulator 2024?
Starting and landing is enough potential to catch some bugs
Iām also not liking the dirty windshields. While weāre at it, I would love to see the scratches removed from them as well. Itās rather distracting looking through that stuff, and was like this in FS20 as well. Iāve found myself saying this a lot lately, but not everything has to be simulated.
Jaydee had mods for clean windshields for 2020 on flightsim.to
Once the 2024 planes are not encrypted anymore a similar mod might be made available.
OMG, yes! In the warmer months in non-desert climes, go look at any plane that just landed (especially those that fly lower, beating up the pattern or doing ground reference maneuvers). The windshield, leading edges, prop, cowl - covered in bug guts.
You can get bugs several thousand feet above the ground, though theyāre obviously more common lower. Iāve seen PIREPs for ballooning spiders at over 10,000ā!
Anyway, thereās a reason small aircraft are called bugsmashers. 
And this, I would love for it to be simulated. Hhahaha, but of course!!
The issue here is that, in our Sim, the bugs creep to our windshields over night, inside the hangers, not while flying. So in the morning, instead of a clean one, itās already smashed with suicidal bugs that found nothing better to do while we were sleeping.
Iām proposing, instead of windshield dirty when you load the plane, you get it clean, and as you fly, you can see those āballooning spidersā smashing like a-boms.
Votes?
Cheers!
They should not accrue while the aircraft is not moving, for sure. And yes, the ability to wash them and also have them come off in the rain would be apropos.
Canāt I remove dirt from the windshield during free flight?
A Kill It With Fire DLC option?
It appears not.
Who wouldnāt want a Kill it With Fire DLC?
Yes please.
Did a free flight in the 407 and see exactly what you mean.
I get this all the time with the texture artists I work with. While I acknowledge that perfectly clean surfaces arenāt realistic, they seem to have problems distinguishing between subtle imperfections and proper dirtiness.
Exactly, and Iām fine with planes getting dirty, I like that.
But then, let us also clean them, right?
This is a brand new Pilatus PC-12. The Hobbs meter was 0 when I started it up and it was spotless. I flew it for an employee mission on a long cargo flight across the Gulf of Mexico at 10 000 feet the whole way. How did it get this filthy??
I think they have the āplanes get dirtyā turned up to 11 and the āpaying to clean a planeā turned down to -1.
Windshields get dirty but not at this rate. When I was instructing Iād spend all day in the pattern with students and only grab a rag and cleaner to clean the windshield once a day maybe twice if we hit a big bug. This was in south Florida abiut 5 miles from the everglades, bugs out all year
If it accumulated at a rate about 5-10% of what itās currently doing that would be more realistic
