Can you please activate the rwy lighting at night

Can you please active the airport lights at night.

Its so unrealistic that all of these big airports are dark as a stormy sky, and it is a simple thing that ED can fix. Getting really tired of calling ATC to active lights. :thumbup:

So you're landing without contacting ATC?

So you're landing without contacting ATC?

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Getting really tired of calling ATC to active lights. :thumbup:

... said no pilot ever. ;)

Did this break again? Previously we didn't have to contact ATC for the lights to come on. Why should we anyway when real airport lights are constantly on at night?

I remember years ago I had to key the mic 3 times to turn on the lights at the airport near my house. Of course there was no ATC, but the lights weren’t on all the time.

Did this break again? Previously we didn't have to contact ATC for the lights to come on. Why should we anyway when real airport lights are constantly on at night?

May as well have a florescent sign saying "bad guys bomb here" on the tarmac in thay case.

Honestly just get Voice Attack/Vaicom and get used to saying "Batumi, inbound". Its fun and immersive. :)

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... said no pilot ever. ;)

So you are a real pilot? I don't think so.

It is not realistic to have to call ATC to have the light activated all the time. :thumbup:

We do not use the in game ATC because its not good. We make our own calls via SRS.

In addition, it is not realistic to have to call every time. Controlled airports are lit up like a Christmas tree, so it is very unrealistic and really dumb as it exists in DCS. Its a probably a simple thing for them to fix and it'd be nice to see some of these issue fixed because its been this way far too long.

Are they really though? Maybe in a non combat zone where traffic is constant but I highly doubt they would be on if there is no traffic.

May as well have a florescent sign saying "bad guys bomb here" on the tarmac in thay case.

Honestly just get Voice Attack/Vaicom and get used to saying "Batumi, inbound". Its fun and immersive. :)

 

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If you're flying out of an airfield that close to the front sure they'd be off, but in DCS not all flights are combat flights and not all bases are close to the front. In general, it is not realistic.

So you are a real pilot? I don't think so.

 

It is not realistic to have to call ATC to have the light activated all the time. :thumbup:

In a war zone? I would suggest they would be off 99% of the time in that situation. In peacetime, not so much of course, but the clue is in the C of DCS isn't it? Doesn't that take priority over peacetime operations? That makes the most sense to me.

In a war/conflict zone, not only would the airports be dark, all the surrounding night lights would be dark. Houses, streets, factories, and even car headlights would be dark.

I would imagine that DCS maps have four sets of map layers for day and four sets for night. (Summer, winter, spring, and autumn.) Perhaps... maybe... who knows... it might be feasible to have yet another four sets for war zone blackout?

For the record, in my squadron during Case III recovery, flight lead often reminds us to call the carrier to get the lights turned on. Each trap, the lights go out. Not realistic, but it does allow for lights-out traps. Now THAT's realistic.

By the way, anybody who's been on a carrier ever seen the island lit up at night?:music_whistling:

We do not use the in game ATC because its not good. We make our own calls via SRS.

 

In addition, it is not realistic to have to call every time. Controlled airports are lit up like a Christmas tree, so it is very unrealistic and really dumb as it exists in DCS. Its a probably a simple thing for them to fix and it'd be nice to see some of these issue fixed because its been this way far too long.

Also would be nice to get those airfield comms reworked sometime soon. I was playing around in BMS to learn some Viper basics for when it drops in DCS and found that airfield comms system slighlty more "advanced".

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90% of the airports around my house have their lights off after 9pm and require the pilot to activate them just fyi....

Anyways, if you want the lights on at an airport, you can place an AI set to takeoff from parking, then set its fuel to 0. Yes, this sucks because it does take up a slot but it does at least give runway lights and without the big floods on at the end of the runway too... I cant remember how long they will stay on for doing this but you could always respawn the AI if they shut off after x amount of time.

Well, I think the international airports should have their lights on? I don't fly a lot in night times but I will se what happens tonight!