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Has anyone ever watched closely at AI traffic landing?

 I've noticed this, I think I mentioned it in one of my misadventures how the AI traffic glides in for a landing and doesn't flare or anything, they just plop down on the runway. Silly for sure.

To be fair, the behaviour of the AI traffic is governed by the FDE characteristics of the aircraft. You have to be very careful what you use in that respect. The absence of flaring is the same irrespective.

If you want a good example of "silly" with A.I. load yourself in to FS2002 in a really fast jet and try and follow any of the large AI jets on takeoff. Their climb rate is competition for the space shuttle....

I never knew about that ctrl+w feature until i saw it here...

Anyway i tried it and got a 737(or 777 not too sure) taxiing, so anyway it went onto the runway taxied to the other end, turned 180 onto the grass and used the grass as a runway!

When doing ctrl+w though the view gets up very close to the plane, is there a way to zoom out?

Your right. They land like I do.  ;D

"When doing ctrl+w though the view gets up very close to the plane, is there a way to zoom out?"

The same way you do when in Spot View, + or - keys.

You can also move the view around with the number pad keys, or the hat switch on your joystick.  You can only use the spot view, not the cockpit, VC, or tower. If you try using the "S" key to switch views, it goes back to your plane.  Logic would dictate that by using SHIFT+S or CTRL+S would cycle back.  But no, it just stays on your plane.  Trying to cycle with CTRL+W again will only open a new window again.  If you mess up the view, you have to close the small window and start over again.

You can also maximize the new window too and get more detail.  Just right click on it and it will pull up an option to maximize it.