HiI'm starting to turn off my landing lights when taxiing because they are just too bright. Is there a way where one can adjust the landing light intensity to something lower, so I can see where I'm going??..Cheershttp://forums.avsim.net/user_files/36133.jpg

I'd like to know this too, I never use the landing lights for this purpose and none of the 'raise/lower' commands seem to work on any of the planes I like. The light are so bright they blank out the runway lights.

Yeah I agree, I cannot use them either. I seem to remember all the beta testers saying the landing lights looked much better in this version but if anything, they are worse.

I can adjust the landing light up/down position, I associate these to joystick buttons, but you need to press many times, because it is slow. Make sure to turn taxi light OFF when adjusting the landing light positionUlisses

Landing lights should be used on approach through touchdown. Taxi lights only should be used for taxiing. You'll otherwise create night blindness for everyone in your forward view.Seems logical anyway. :-)

I'm beginning to think this is a vid Card issue. The default aircraft landing lights look great on my system. The night looks as if the area is being flooded with neutral light - much better than fs8. But most of my favorite addon aircraft have landing/taxi lights that are so bright, like the light is being pointed at me instead of away, that they make it nearly impossible to see anything.

Will,When I taxi out...a lot of times I don't use any forward facing white lights...it depends on the airport and conditions. It's also important to remember when your at the hold short (or the run up area near the hold short) to make sure you have your lights off (for inbound a/c on short final). You should only turn them on once you're on the active. I learned this from doing a lot of class B airport flying..A friendly 737 pilot turned his lights off so he wouldn't blind me in my little sundowner.

Oh yeah dudes,the landing/taxi lights are indeed just ****. It seems they are just "enwhitening" the surface in front of ya, not LIGHTING it up at all.Well, from a "logical" point of view, wouldn't the following assumption be more or less correct:- nighttime: lights off: you see not very much- nighttime: lights on: you clearly see the surface in front of ya, the yellow/white lines clear, the ashpalt darkNow what it seems it FS...- nighttime: lights on: you see even LESS than with lights off... There is NO more contrast, it's just a BIG, HUGE white flood of something which is CERTAINLY of NO help.Have you ever seen the landing lights at heavy fog? Maybe it's a driver issue with me, but it looks... HORRIBLE. I anyway found the corners MUCH too sharp (well they are a very tiny bit smoothed, but that's 500% too less, the beam looks just like a big bad triangle...). Now with heavy fog, I don't get ANY smoothening at all any more. So I got a geometrically true triangle... Uhhhmmmm :-erks with even the far most edge (where the light should actually smoothly get darker...) being just "cut off": AWFUL.So I'd REALLY love to have some lights which LIGHT UP the ground, not putting a white 90% opaque triangle on top of it. Furthermore smooth.Sorry dudes, if this was too rude... Ooops. Anyway, just my

I also had very bright taxi and landing lights. I corrected it by pressing the Ctrl and Shift keys, turning off the Num Lock key in the number pad and simultaniasly pressing the number 2 key or the number 8 key while also holding down the Ctrl and Shift keys. . This lowers and raises the landing lights, but I found out it also lowered the intensity. I hope it works for you also.

Actually thinking about it, in relation to when I go real flying, my instructor stated that once one moving forward from the holding point before the runway to the active runway itself, one should 1stly switch the transponder onto ALT and if necessary switch on the LANDING LIGHTS. One thing that does kind of annoy me with FS panels, is that some contain switches for Landing lights and taxi lights, where as others just have landing lights.I seem to recall I tried using just the taxi lights while manoeuvring on the apron, and that worked fine. If you then have both taxiing lights AND landing lights on takeoff, then.... lol... well, make sure your concentrating on where your going otherwise your gona go off that runway! lolI'll look into it further tonight..

I forgot to mention that you must be holding down the Ctrl an Shift keys when you turn off the Num Lock in the keypad otherwise it won't work. Keep holding down the Ctrl an Shift keys and press number 8 or 2 in the keypad. You can also center the light beam by using the 4 or 6 keys. Good luck.