Does anyone no of a way of improving the visibility of the VASI lights in FSX? One airport in particular happens to be an add on and exept for this problem, is a great piece of scenery, KSFO by FlightBeam. The problem is not only with this airport, it just seems a little worse than the defaults which aren't good iether.

Find your FSX.cfg file and under the [Display} section add these lines;RUNWAY_LIGHTS_SURFACE_SCALAR=0.8RUNWAY_LIGHTS_VASI_SCALAR=0.8RUNWAY_LIGHTS_APPROACH_SCALAR=0.8RUNWAY_LIGHTS_STROBE_SCALAR=0.7I have mine turned down, you need to raise them up to your liking. Try 1.2, save FSX.cfg, try it in the sim and see how it works. Repeat, repeat, repeat as necessary to find your sweet spot.

Find your FSX.cfg file and under the [Display} section add these lines;RUNWAY_LIGHTS_SURFACE_SCALAR=0.8RUNWAY_LIGHTS_VASI_SCALAR=0.8RUNWAY_LIGHTS_APPROACH_SCALAR=0.8RUNWAY_LIGHTS_STROBE_SCALAR=0.7I have mine turned down, you need to raise them up to your liking. Try 1.2, save FSX.cfg, try it in the sim and see how it works. Repeat, repeat, repeat as necessary to find your sweet spot.

Does this increase brightness or just size? Because when i am close, 200AGL for instance, the scale of the lights look about right but they are not very bright.

There's a set of lights done by Michael Swannick in the Avsim library you could try, Rick:-fsx_lights.zip and NickN gave me this one: http://www.b3ta.cr3ation.co.uk/data/zip/2624.halo.zipCheers

The default airports are actually brighter than normal vs the real world. The SFO scenery you're talking about is a little more accurate but they went towards the other end of the spectrum unfortunately. I have the Flightbeam scenery, fsdreamteama and fly tampa's stuff. Yah they are a bit too dim, but not far from reality.Look at this real video landing tpa at night, see how it's tough to find the runway and once you do it's not as bright as the highway off the right...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pZfppLfvUYThis is what I remember the lights looking like when I actually was flying lol

Many thanks guys. I will have to just pay close attention to my instruments in my PMDG747. Its just nice to have that extra little bit of back up on a LOC approach because when you are performing a 135 TO 140 knot landing, by the time i can read the vasi lights i'm too close to correct. So its go around time. Its ok in a Cesna at 50 knots.

Check your pm's, Rick.

Check your pm's, Rick.

Thanks PJ. Sent reply.