In addition to that, objects seem to draw much further and clearer in external views. I flew some training around the oil platforms just out of Sochi, and they appear clearly in the external view. Switch to cockpit, can't see them, they are not drawn at all. Go to external, clear to see as you'd expect a bloody oil rig to be... If I zoom in HARD in cockpit view, I can see them, but obviously that's not really usable... draw distance is high, details high, etc etc.
IS there / will there ever be a solution to this? If one can't spot an OIL PLATFORM from a few km out...