Aerofly 2 on lower end devices vs higher end ones

Hi, since I only have an iPad mini 1 I can't get the special graphics and I don't really know what they look like so I have made this thread to show some of the differences between the graphics I get and the graphics you can get on an air2/6+. There are probably other people who haven't seen the difference yet so hopefully this thread will be useful. It would be great if people could post screenshots stating the device they are using and maybe roughly where they are.
Thanks, Tristan

I'm guessing the wings aren't supposed to look like that lol

Wow the plane models are better there than what I get

Here are similar photos on the iPad mini 1:

You can see what difference the retina makes

Hi, unfortunately I was impatient and didn't wait for the iPad mini 2 to come out so I got the 1 about 4 months before the 2 came out. I hadn't seen what retina was like then but now I wish I had it! I only found out about aerofly around 6 months after having my iPad so when I bought it I didn't think I would need the extra memory of the iPad mini 2. Another thing I wish I had is 32gb of storage - I ran out a lot faster than I thought I would. "The clarity of San Jose, seen in my last and your second pic must be due to difference device available memory when downloading the app." Do you mean that aerofly sorts out graphics settings based on how much available memory there is when you download the app? So if I had aerofly 1 and a load of other high memory consuming apps open when I downloaded AF2 do you think I would get worse graphics? That would be interesting because I could well have previously been using AF1 when I downloaded 2.

Wow great pics!

I just tried to recreate those shots on my ipad but I found I just couldn't get that orangey pinkish hazey sunset light! I tried pretty much every time setting near 3:45 but you will see how close I got below. I also found that when I put the plane on the very same runway as the first pic, I couldn't see the buildings from San Francisco in the distance even on the furthest distance setting.

the reflections on the side of the fuselage look great here

As you can see in this comparison the higher end graphics work MUCH better in darker light. The mini 1 scenery graphics are much to dark compared with how bright the sky is.

Hi, I have been out most of today and I was suprised by all the posts that have been flooding in! Even as I am writing this, I have just got a notification of a new post here. Overloaded my night lightning and shadows are fine, it is just at sunset/sunrise that the ground seems far too dark. On my earlier post I was referring to RAM but I didn't word it very well; to many difference kinds of memory! On retina, the little squares and lines (aliases?) are much less visible but without retina you really notice them, particularly on the baron.

This is the baron on Aerofly 1

This is the baron on Aerofly 2
The white lines around the instruments on the AF2 version must be some sort of extra detail that looks good when you have retina, but without retina, it draws too much attention to the pixels due to the contrast between the white lines and the black background. I wonder if this picture shows this if you view it on a retina screen.

Hi Gary, that is interesting to know about the eye recognising camera thing because I was wondering whether it would be worth getting one of the future generation of iPads or getting an iPad mini 2. I don't think there is much memory difference between the iPad mini 2 and the 3, the only difference seems to be the Touch ID which I'm not too bothered about since it costs and extra £100 or so.