A lot of scratches, maybe a bit less please

I'm not denying the presence of scratches on canopies, on the contrary (especially in GA where cost is more of a factor). We had cracks on some of the older club operated glider canopies from drops, with patches and anti-travel holes drilled.

 

Your camera is focused to the canopy, when I fly; I'm not focused on that, I'm looking beyond it for traffic and so on. Those are light scratches along with apparently dirt, not quite what I'm seeing in the Harrier.

 

Long and short, in my humble opinion, as a flyer; it could do with toning down.

It is what you are seeing. The scratches show differently in different light conditions. It's not dirt on the canopy but moisture and pollen. DCS models the scratches effectively in the sunlight. They aren't perfect unless they are new, and they have simm'd this aspect well enough. There is the case that there can be newer canopies, but what we have in game is still within the used canopy condition. Point I was making in the pic was look at the pattern of the scratches. Look familiar?

+1 for toning them down, they’re excessive in VR and glow bright white in sunlight, even at sunset.