Good Morning Members.Is there any way to activate all or selected runway lighting during the hours of daylight, i.e in reduced visibility ?In other words, what is the deciding factor(s) that dictate if they're on or off, and are they user selectable.Many ThanksPaul

Paul,Sadly I believe this to be a limitation within the Flight Simulator Engine which means it's not possible to have runway lights on during the day.To be fair I can't recall what the situation is during poor visibility during the day.

Hello Terry.Thanks for the response. I'm sure that somewhere out there, the technology should exist to make it work. Maybe someday, someone will sort it, maybe not in my lifetime, but who knows.....Best RgdsPaul

During poor visibilty the RW lights do come on in daytime.Just made an online flight EGHH- EGDM and back using RW weather - it's been a foul day in the S of England and FS9 reproduced the weather very accurately with visibilty in the region of 1000yds. The RW lighting was on at both airfields.Dave

I've seen it too on MSFS. In the real world, the lights come on when the airport goes IFR (except pilot activated lights which still need to be activated by the pilot).----------------------------------------------------------------John S. MorganReal World: KGEG, UND Aerospace Spokane Satillite, Private 130+ hrs.Virtual: MSFS 2004"There is a feeling about an airport that no other piece of ground can have. No matter what the name of the country on whose land it lies, an airport is a place you can see and touch that leads to a reality that can only be thought and felt." - The Bridge Across Forever: A Love Story by Richard Bach

Here in the US, "below VFR" (at least for Part 91) is less than 3 miles visibility and/or less than 1,000' to the lowest ceiling (broken or overcast layer)above the airport. I believe this triggers the lights on at day-time (at least the airport beacons, which is the way it is in the real-world). I'm not sure what the VMC minimums are in other countries.Bruce.

Hi PaulI've been asking Microsoft for this function since FS98, requested it again when they were developing FS2000 and again for FS2002 and again for FS2004 .... they simply ignore the request!At the moment the approach lights will come on below 5mi and the runway light below 2mi ... it is rediculous, because I use to be a CPL pilot and you could request runway lights and / or approach light at any time from ATC and if ATC is not available, your could simply click the Tx on Tower Freq 3 times and the runway and approach light will come on.There are sceneries that people designed where you could switch the runway lights on during daytime (for example some of the sceneries in Italy by LAGO has a the function on a certain freq on your COM radio) but for the rest, I can not believe that Microsoft can or will not add this "reality" function to their simulators. :-(Nevertheless, until then we only have the above mentioned function not to mention the fact that the approach lights and runway lights (INHO) can only be set to 10% brightness because for the life of me, it is really really difficult to see those approach lights when you approach in bad visibility until you are almost on the runway.RegardsTerblanche

>because I use>to be a CPL pilot never heard of a CPL pilot ;-)>it is really really difficult to see those>approach lights when you approach in bad visibility until you>are almost on the runway.I primarily use FS9 for low visibility approaches and I can see approach lights from ~about the same distance as in real life. It is not perfect but saying that you must be almost "on the runway" to see lights is simply not true.It is not something that happens very often in real life that pilots request lights in VFR conditions. How often ATC will grant your request I have no data but I have little support for criticizing Microsoft for implementing "standard" runway/approach lights procedures.Michael J.WinXP-Home SP2,AMD64 3500+,Abit AV8,Radeon X800Pro,36GB Raptor,1GB PC3200,Audigy 2

Oh well Michael J.it may be true in whatever country you fly in, but I can promise you that in South Africa (and in the rest of Africa where I flew) you will have runway and approach lights turned on (by ATC because thank goodness they could see for themselves that lights will be an aid for any approaching aircraft) if the vis drops. Usually during the day with smog conditions, the brightness (intensity) of the lights will be between 60% - 75% ...(just yesterday I drove past Runway 01 for FACT on my way to Stellenbosch and the visibility must have been

Hi Terblanche.Many Thanks for the prompt, and acceptable explanation for the scenario I described. It does seem bizarre to say the least, that the technology can't be adapted to something as simple as this.Many Thanks also to the rest of the members who provided useful inputBest RgdsPaulFrom a snowy (in some parts) & wet UK