Lakes That should not be there!

[earl1937]

  On the map we were having all the problems yesterday, there are 2 lakes by V-145 and V-146, which are not shown on the clipboard map. Some of the guys attacking V-146 with me could see the lakes and some could not!

2nd Problem...took off in B-26's from A144, had no needle on airspeed, altitude, rate of climb. The Instruments were in the right positions, but had no needles on them...after a few minutes, I begin to notice the needles from the instruments all at the bottom of the panel.

[ImADot]

Clipboard maps are nothing more than an image created by whoever created the terrain, so can contain (or not contain) anything the artist wants. "Invisible" lakes are a result of a combination of your graphics settings and the terrain type under the water. Here's a sample of different settings and what the "water" looks like - it's old, but still valid. The terrain texture under the water is not the default "deep ocean" like most of the ocean on maps is.