A friend of mine told me that once, flying at high latitudes, he was able to see an aurora borealis.I set my flight from Tampere, Finland, and flew all the way North, trying to stay on the same meridian (what was not easy). I tried Winter and Summer time, but I did not succeed in seeing anything special other than the daylight that was visible all the time, although for part of the flight it was after 10 p.m. And I flew as much North as FS permitted (89

Yes, I have...this past Fall over Alaska. As I recall, I was flying out of Anchorage and Kenai, and the Aurora Borealis was there several times.You'll get better results after dark, but don't expect it to be as spectacular as the real thing. :-)Kurt "Yoda" Kalbfleischwww.simulomundusrex.blogspot.com

>Has anyone exeperienced a sight of an aurora borealis? Under>what conditions? (latitute, season, time of the day).Question 1: yes sir, totally spectacularQuestion 2: "Under what conditions"... magic mushroomshope this helpsCheersDan

>>Has anyone exeperienced a sight of an aurora borealis?>Under>>what conditions? (latitute, season, time of the day).>>Question 1: yes sir, totally spectacular>Question 2: "Under what conditions"... magic mushrooms>>hope this helps>>Cheers>Dan LOL...........I'm sure it will:+

People have devoted many years of their lives to photographing Northern Lights. There is no timetable for when they occur, it's like trying to predict a rainbow. When it happens, it happens.

I fly for BFU mostly in Alaska (look down the forums list for their forum) and I've seen the aurora Borealis a lot. There's also a texture set to enhance the aurora effect somewhere in the file library. There's also the aurora australis (southern version of the aurora) modeled in FS 2004. Try flying at night in the winter in the northern latitudes and you'll have a much better chance of seeing it. In summertime the northern lands has too much light to see the aurora well. Actually I have a little virtual cabin up in Coldfoot Alaska and it barely gets dark in mid summer up that far north.

Saw it in Alaska as well, I saw it during early spring.Jeff

I saw them over the north Atlantic on a flight from New York to London. Can't remember the time of year, though.

I saw them in a flight today from London to Iceland. They were specacular, covered almost all of the sky, and were visible on the ground in Iceland. I've flown this area before and have not seen them before. I'm not sure what the trigger is to get them to appear.Jared

This is a great site for learning about the auroras http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/auroras/ with some good shots of auroras taken from the space shuttle.

Hmm. Did a little bit of searching, but couldn't find anything concrete. It seems that AB appears less often if fs9 than fs2002 for realism. Also, it seems, AB appears most often at high northern latitudes in winter. Apparently, the minimum default FL is 17000 to see the lights.The associated files are somewhere in the MS effects folder, but i dont know if they can be modified in any way.It seems Aurora Borealis has a random quality in this version of FlightSim.Wish i could help more (wouldn't mind seeing them myself):-) Dan

Thanks a lot to all who replied to my post. At least now I know for sure they can be seen in FS9. I read in an encyclopedia that their activity is maximum at the equinoxes. From some posts I understand that the latitude has not to be close to the North Pole: Iceland or Alaska will be enough. So I will keep trying!Best Regards,

I did it! At last I managed to see an Aurora Borealis. I tried to fly from Reykiavic, heading North, during the night of the Spring equinox. Nothing happened for a long while. When I reached the 83

Well done!May i ask if you recall approximately what flight level you were at?Thanks Dan

And did you grab any screenshots?