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Any way to light up the runways?


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With the new 2.7 lighting system, the runways (particularly grass strips) are nigh impossible to see under the shadow of a cloud; worse in the mornings and evenings. Combine that with the flak search lights making night missions possible, is there any way to light up the runways? 

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Played for the first time on 2.7, doing just navigation by map in spirfire, and ATC and i was unable to find  saint omer, even with atc i am lost spaming. Inbound, abort, inbound, even with start from it, once i flied away, i could not find again by atc cords. In vr. I will try again tommorow, but i am almost feel like atc is pointing me to different location. Had no problem with any england and coastal airfield to find with eyes and map but saint omer is to saint for me to see.

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I wonder if it would be good idea to have lights that can be placed in the mission editor, that can be triggered on or off.

 

As for the search lights, I think what we could do with is something like the barrage fire, which will just aim the search light at an area.

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On 4/20/2021 at 8:03 PM, Wexler said:

I will try again tommorow, but i am almost feel like atc is pointing me to different location.

It does point you to the initial fix about 5nm from the field. ATC Inbound tells you the active RWY. So when you get to the fix, you'll get radio message to contact ATC*, turn to the RWY heading and fly 5nm from there.

 

*The ATC will report visual on you whenever you get near the airfield area so that depends on your approach geometry.


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10 minutes ago, draconus said:

It does point you to the initial fix about 5nm from the field. ATC Inbound tells you the active RWY. So when you get to the fix, you'll get radio message to contact ATC, turn to the RWY heading and fly 5nm from there.

Thank you. I realized, that it points me to a point from where I should start lining up to rwy. But I didnt know, that this is the point, when I  am informed about "visual" if thats what you mean. I thought that message is played anytime i am near the airfield. It wasnt reported in the case i wrote earlier anyway.

 

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1 minute ago, Wexler said:

I thought that message is played anytime i am near the airfield.

Yes, you're right. If you overfly the airfield area you'll be contacted by ATC earlier of course.

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So, there is no runway lights in this map, as opposed to other maps, right?

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On 4/29/2021 at 10:35 PM, VFGiPJP said:

So, there is no runway lights in this map, as opposed to other maps, right?

 

Correct (at least for airfields I've visited on the map).

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I dont know why the runways on DCS are not lighting at all during night landings. Even in supercarrier module there are a lights flashing and night which is very useful in CASE III, but not in runways....its very strange

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27 minutes ago, VDV said:

I dont know why the runways on DCS are not lighting at all during night landings.

Not true. Contact friendly ATC first.

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or in mission editor you could add static smoke effects anywhere on runway or positions one on either side of runway to direct you. The ATC command only works on larger airports it seems.🤔

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