Cockpit Lights

[Amboss]

Well I have done a couple offline test runs with the new 1.11 Patch and noticed that at night depending on the position of the moon relative to your plane it can happen that the cockpit now gets so dark that you cant read any dials anymore, which of course is quite annoying.

Most planes had a cockpit light, for example the FW190 had a blue light to illuminate the instrument panel at night. I was wondering if HTC could add these lights to all the planes that had them (or simply all the planes) and make them switchable (on/off) with a key . It would really help during nighttime and it would look rather neat having, say, a lowlight bluish cockpit tint. Now that they have these dynamic lights, I am sure this wouldn't be too difficult to add.

Also, we really need landing lights on our planes! (But that might be a wee bit more difficult to add)

And before anyone mentions it, no, bumping up gamma or monitor brightness for night flying isn't an option; it's supposed to be a sim after all.

-Amboss

[Shiva]

Originally posted by Amboss
And before anyone mentions it, no, bumping up gamma or monitor brightness for night flying isn't an option; it's supposed to be a sim after all.

What I'll do when night falls is turn off the light over my computer, so that I don't have a big brightness contrast between the monitor screen and the rest of my field of view.

I still haven't flown 1.11p1 at night, so I can't say if it still has the 'reverse lighting' effect at night, where the light source illuminating aircraft, vehicles, and interiors actually comes from the sun, regardless of where it is --  where you can fly at night and look out at the moon, but the side of your cockpit toward the moon (which is facing you, and therefore facing away from the moon) is brightly lit, while the other side (the one actually facing the moon) is dark.

The effect did have a couple of useful effects; it would light up GVs at dusk very nicely, for example, although your misses were harder to see and correct for.