Sharpness of NEF raw conversion for landscape photo is poor compared to ViewNX raw conversion

Raw conversion in ViewNX is far sharper than Aperture for some photos, enough so to differentiate as usable or unusable images. I tried adjusting sharpness and edges sliders in "RAW Fine Tuning" adjustments but even at maximum is terribly blurry compared to default ViewNX raw conversion. Overall color and dynamic range seem better in ViewNX for landscape shots but not critical like the blurriness... the difference is profound so I think I'm doing something wrong or the 3.2 update may have a serious bug. Anyone else have thisissue?
Aperture 3.2:
ViewNX:

I was talking with some others in another forum and someone suggested ViewNX may be automatically applying settings from camera default picture settings. So I just checked and in
menu->shooting menu->set picture control
(Nikon D90)
the standard "SD" setting is set to sharpen value 7 on a scale of 0-9. Sounds like ViewNX is reading that value and applying some very strong sharpening in software on the raw image. However, I'd expect to set the Aperture RAW fine tune sharping adjustment to 100% and get reasonable close to similar sharpness. At this point I think I understand the issue but I also feel that ViewNX is much better able to sharpen the RAW image while introducing less unwanted artifacts. It's a pretty significant point and I'd be quite happy to see improvement in sharpness from Aperture RAW conversion of NEF files.
I don't suppose there is any way I can configure Aperture to use the Nikon RAW converter? I'd love to have the option to choose or switch back and forth depending on the picture and results. There are times I prefer Apertures converter to Nikons.

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Hello Pritch,
I would recommend to adapt the camera to high altitude conditions, rather then to do too much post processing.
Pritch wrote:
I am at a high altitude, and many of my pics are bright and sometimes a little washed out. I use Auto Contrast sometimes, but then it sometimes goes too far, and appears too dark.
There are three scattering effects that do influence pictures at high altitudes: Rayleigh scattering, caused by scattering of the molecules of the atmosphere that tints the pictures blue, Mie-Scattering and non-selective scattering from small particles (pollen, dust, fog) that makes them appear hazy and washed out. The amount of corruption depends on the meteoroligal conditions, only the Rayleigh scattering is always present.
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before anyone says i have the updated camera raw plug in because i have already looked so it should work, but it doesnt.
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