A friend told me that in early simulation daze using the camera / terrain tech one landscape was modified to put the control tower on a hinge/spring mount because the camera kept hitting it with monotonous regularity when doing single engine overshoots.
He also said that they had one sim where the camera was stationary longitudinally but could move laterally and vertically while the terrain moved longitudinally towards the camera lens on a giant conveyor belt. I do not know if this was just experimental.