MD-11 landing and taxi lights are displaced

[Humbie 0]

Hello,I have a small problem with the placement of the landing and taxi lights of my MD-11.Both are displayed some meters before the plane. I suggest that an add-on has changed something (maybe XGraphics) in the aircraft .cfg.I didn't have the problem with other planes like the PMDG 747.I hope that someone has an idea to fix that :-)I'm using FSX SP2 (no Acc) on WinVista 64Bit). MD-11 has the latest SP installed.Many Thanks,TorstenPS: Can't attach the aircraft.cfg so I post just the lights part:[LIGHTS]//Types: 1=beacon, 2=strobes, 3=Navigation, 4=Cockpit, 5=landing, 6=taxi, 7=recognition, 8=wing, 9=Logolight.0 = 8, -85.231, 23.611, -1.000, fx_PMDG_MD11_winglight,light.1 = 7, -85.231, -23.611, -1.000, fx_PMDG_MD11_winglight,light.2 = 2, -14.500, 0.00, -10.750, fx_PMDG_MD11_LL_Light,light.3 = 9, -7.025, 0.00, 4.263, fx_PMDG_MD11_emerlights,

[Cirrus22 9]

I had that issue, and fixed it by selecting the landing lights for the RealAir Duke in REX. Seems a bit of a strange fix, but it worked!

[Humbie 0]

Hmmm... I don't have REX so that hint will not work for me :-(Regards,Torsten

[Humbie 0]

Has nobody an idea what the cause could be?I would really like to see something out in the dark ;-)Regards,Torsten

[downscc 1,327]

Something probably replaced the original spotlight.bmp file, happens with often with so-called enhanced add-ons. Restore the original file.

[Humbie 0]

Hi Dan,That was the hint I was searching for. I had to crawl through all the FSX install CABs and replaced the installed one.Now I can see the rabbits in front of my plane again ;-)Many thanks for your help.Regards,Torsten

[skipph 82]

I understood this to be a bug in MSFS. Skip Ciman

[des182001 1]

I had that issue, and fixed it by selecting the landing lights for the RealAir Duke in REX. Seems a bit of a strange fix, but it worked!

Selecting any of the "high intensity" ones will work as well.

[harvester21 34]

Torsten,Could you be a bit more specific on how you "crawled through all the FSX install CABs and replaced the installed one"?I'm having the same problem, but I have no clue what any of your sentence means..Your help would be much appreciated!

[Humbie 0]

Hi Sander,I have extracted all the CAB files from the installation DVDs of FSX and searched for the spotlight.bmp.Read the following article from M$:http://support.microsoft.com/kb/129605/en-usAfter I found the file I just copied it to my FSX installation (use the search in Windows to find the file). It was somewhere below FSX/Textures I think.If you are using xgraphics, I found (later) an easier way --> http://forum.avsim.n...-and-pmdg-md11/See the reply from jordanal.Regards,Torsten

[ahinterl 1]

Discovered yesterday that I have this as well :(!Fortunately, I always keep a fresh copy of FSX on my drive. So, I replaced spotlight.bmp, have the landing lights back, but the beam is not gradually rendered but has visible "color steps" in it, as if I had antialiasing turned off :(! Seems to be only the landing/taxi lights because my daylight skies have smooth color gradients...Will experiment today and see if installing another REX light set will help, currently I have REX "Xeon" lights installed...

[harvester21 34]

Thanks for the advice Torsten. I will start digging whenever I get some time.. Let you know if it worked.

[chrisinnewark 0]

Something probably replaced the original spotlight.bmp file, happens with often with so-called enhanced add-ons. Restore the original file.

THANK YOU! I had the exact same problem - none of my landing lights/taxi lights illuminated the runway on any of my payware aircraft. At first I thought it was something to do with flights that transitioned from day to night as I'd read somewhere that FSX can have a problem with that but then when I tried a flight solely at night I found that I still had the same problem.

Luckily I had FSX installed on an old PC so I was able to copy the spotlight.bmp and overright the spotlight file in my new PC and hey presto! It works!