World Lighting - Sun, Moon

Something I’ve noticed, wondering if others have as well.

I’ve done quite a few late afternoon/evening flights, between 1700-1830 PDT. During the 30-45 minutes after sunset in the real world, the sky to the west is still glowing and fairly well lit by the sun. In the sim, it is pitch black.

I don’t think this is a matter of the sun angle, I’m sure they get that right. I even see issues with artificial lights… landing lights, taxi lights, ground lights. It seems that everywhere in the sim, falloff from light sources, including the Sun, is unrealistically steep.

Anybody else notice this?

I think the sun rise and/or sunset times to be pretty amazing.

The lighting you mentioned, could use a bit of work.

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