Other than SoFly addon is there anything else out there that will allow me to set custom visibility? I prefer viz to be around 10nm which also helps with frames. 
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There are some options to look through on the Custom weather display. I was looking at them this morning but I've forgotten if there's one there for visibility. If there is one it would be on the Custom page. Look for the flight conditions button top right of the flight planner, then the custom weather button bottom left of the options page.

No there isn’t. Why I’m asking the question. 

Unlike previous versions, there is not a dedicated visibility option. Aerosol density sort of changes things but I dont know of a way to manually change the visibility. Using live weather I have gotten very low visibility due to the weather so they are able to pull it off somehow but just not manually. 

Due to the nature of volumetric atmosphere rendering, it is really hard to control visibility directly. Most of volumetric atmosphere implementations use physical inputs like Mie scattering and extinction coefficients, not ground visibility. In MSFS' case this input is aerosol density as Mie scattering is the dominant scattering event for aerosols. It is possible to map aerosol density into ground visibility, but it requires a lot of tweaking / calibration.

Prepar3D's new default Enhanced Atmospherics (volumetric atmosphere & clouds) implementation have a similar issue - while there is a visibility slider, it does not match real-life conditions accurately.

With that being said, I really hope Asobo adds a way to manually control ground visibility.

And i hope they add more real visibility to the live weather. No smog, no city haze, no inversions...no humid air and what not.

My single biggest gripe with the sim. There is absolutely no way to control the visibility/haze in the sim. Also this aerosol density mumbo jumbo is just a gimmick. Live weather has absolutely no effect on aerosol density. The way the sim lowers visibilty is bringing the cloud layer to the ground. What about reduced visibility due to humidity? Getting sick of these cavok conditions.

3 minutes ago, Baber20 said:

My single biggest gripe with the sim. There is absolutely no way to control the visibility/haze in the sim. Also this aerosol density mumbo jumbo is just a gimmick. Live weather has absolutely no effect on aerosol density. The way the sim lowers visibilty is bringing the cloud layer to the ground. What about reduced visibility due to humidity? Getting sick of these cavok conditions.

Could not agree more! I miss flights where you cruise at FL290 and barely see the ground due to humid conditions!

When I fly to places like Delhi the missing visibility feature really shows up.

Just now, sanh said:

When I fly to places like Delhi the missing visibility feature really shows up.

I remember flying to Shanghai as a passenger and from TOD to landing we had nearly no visibility due to smog and haze. Really miss this in the Sim.

Votes please 

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/are-there-any-plans-to-update-live-weather-to-introduce-visibility-parameters-such-as-humidity-or-dust-to-reduce-visibility-aerosol-density-plays-no-part-in-live-weather-to-reduce-visibility/385647?u=gridrisen

I voted

I am precisely in flight towards Agadir visi 8km but it will be a visibility like a CAVOK ...

Still boggles my mind that why would they leave such a crucial weather parameter out. Even FSX had it.

Edited March 31, 20215 yr by Baber20

Yes that's what I told myself also FS2004 had the fog how MSFS2020 can not have it !!
Well, it's going 9 months since the game was released and still nothing ...

I hope that ActiveSky will also come soon