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Does anyone recognise these strange lighting effects?

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I'd really like to get rid of this, but after deleting all LIGHTS, EFFECTS and SMOKE entries from the a/c cfg file, I am no nearer to finding the cause. Does anyone recognise why this might be happening with various a/c? I may be wrong, but I get the impression it occurs in cold weather.Thanks,Martin

Martin Stebbing, EGLF (UK)

Does this happen at all airports or only at a specific one?

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To be honest, I couldn't say whether it happens at all airports - but it's certainly not specific to just one, it's happened at several.

Martin Stebbing, EGLF (UK)

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Could be something not related to the aircraft at all (which is what I've assumed up to now and where all my troubleshooting efforts have gone) - perhaps an fx file in the effects folder. I'll have to remove them in groups to see if I can find a culprit. Will report back.

Martin Stebbing, EGLF (UK)

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Ok - got it. It comes from added on contrails. The file fx_A_I_Contrail from ai_fx.zip causes this to happen - but it was my fault entirely as in the a/c affected I had not updated the aircraft.cfg with the right maximum temperature for the contrails to start (I had it at -15 degs instead of -27).Sorted!:-)

Martin Stebbing, EGLF (UK)

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