For Night Flying with the DA62, I created a Flight Sim Labs Spotlight profile allowing a dimmer lighting than the one offered by the original flood light dimmer in the VC.

• FSLSpotlights is an application that FSLabs incorporated in their Airbus and made available for free to the public as donation ware (since v2.0.0.9). It works with P3d V4.1 and more.
• It allows creating a group of small lights in the VC that can provide dim (or bright) lighting to various part of the panel.
• I used it to put a dim bluish light on the G1000 PFD and MFD knobs and buttons. Also one for the compass.

Installation:

• You need to download and install Spotlights from FlighSimLabs web site under the “tool” menu item. Don’t worry about the price shown, it’s free now. There is some information on the page also about the app.
• Then drop the spotlight file (FSLSpotLights.ini) in the aircraft menu of P3D. Same place as you find the aircraft.cfg file. For those registered on the FSLabs forum, you can go the the FSL Spotlights section and search for the thread named “Spotlight Config Files To Be Shared With The Community” and look on page 3 to find the file. Others can drop me a PM and I will send them the file.

Operation:

• FSLSpotlights will put a small contextual menu on the bottom left of your P3D screen (a very small square that you can click to expand the window). It’s described on the product page.
• You can use this menu to put this lighting ON or OFF or to modify the dim level. I put a level of 70% for my machine allowing you to select slightly higher or lower level. The results is affected by several other settings on your system;
  • your monitor: mode/brightness/contrast
  • your HDR settings; mine is 0.29, 1.0, 1.0
  • maybe shaders mod or other … I haven’t tested
• During day operation, I either reduce the level at 10% or close the splotlights altogether.
• You can also show or hide the Spotlights window using the option provided in the Add-On menu of P3D.

Limitation:

-          You cannot operate those lights with a VC switch, you have to use the FSLSpotlights menu to put them ON or OFF.

 Dark sky…!!

 

Thanks, Pierre. I downloaded the spotlight program last week, but have not attempted install yet. Now I have better  knowledge about what I'm getting into.

Hello, where is the file "FSLSpotLights.ini" (of Vertx DA62) please ?

ok, i have found it :

https://forums.flightsimlabs.com/topic/5711-spotlight-config-files-to-be-shared-with-the-community/?do=findComment&comment=147172

Edited January 16, 20233 yr by StephaneS

I don’t fly at night but it’s nice to see this excellent aircraft receive some loving care. 👏

20 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

I don’t fly at night but it’s nice to see this excellent aircraft receive some loving care. 👏

I second that Ray. I have been taking a better look at this great add-on in P3D 5.3 over the last few days. I must say that it has really won me over again. To me it is just the most fun GA plane on any platform or by any developer to fly and especially flying by hand. Today I have winds at 17 gusting to 26 kts. at KPNS and I did some crosswind landings as well as checking things out while taxiing around. It just performed amazing as expected. Things get pretty rough during taxi unless you work the elevator and ailerons as as in real life. To be honest I had never noticed that before. I hope that the upcoming P3D update makes it possible to install the DA-62. I would gladly pay $75 or more to see this thing updated and I am not sure I would move to the next p3d with out this plane. I think it is that good! I would also pay good money to get a version of this plane with the GTN 750 on board (are you listening  Reality XP! LOL). Yep I know that is not real life but I do love the 750.

@shivers9, taxiing is definitely challenging. 😁 I created a Registry entry that fools the installer into thinking P3Dv4 is installed. It isn’t of course but you’ll be fine installing into v6 with those entries. I’ll post details tomorrow.

Some programs like AI Lights Reborn don’t like those dummy Registry entries so I have a desktop shortcut to remove them. The DA62 utility needs the Registry entries to be present so another shortcut reinstates them.

If it sound a bit messy it isn’t really. Just like toggling a switch on/off as circumstances require.

Using Aivlasoft’s EFB I can adjust my plan and the results are immediately fed into the DA62. Brilliant! 😁

1 hour ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

@shivers9, taxiing is definitely challenging. 😁 I created a Registry entry that fools the installer into thinking P3Dv4 is installed. It isn’t of course but you’ll be fine installing into v6 with those entries. I’ll post details tomorrow.

Some programs like AI Lights Reborn don’t like those dummy Registry entries so I have a desktop shortcut to remove them. The DA62 utility needs the Registry entries to be present so another shortcut reinstates them.

If it sound a bit messy it isn’t really. Just like toggling a switch on/off as circumstances require.

Using Aivlasoft’s EFB I can adjust my plan and the results are immediately fed into the DA62. Brilliant! 😁

Quick question Ray. Are you running Aivlasoft on the same computer as P3d or a networked computer?

53 minutes ago, shivers9 said:

Quick question Ray. Are you running Aivlasoft on the same computer as P3d or a networked computer?

Networked. Doesn’t really impact on performance if you run it on same machine these days. But I also run LittleNavmap and Radar Contact on it.

These are the Registry entries required to fool the Vertx DA62 installer into thinking you have P3Dv4 installed thereby allowing the installer to run. Copy and paste this into a plain text file and rename it P3Dv4.reg

The reg extension is important as it associates with the Registry Editor. Rename the path and License where appropriate. Note the \\ in the path is correct.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v4]
"License"="Academic"
"SetupPath"="D:\\P3Dv5"

Some packages like AI LIghts Reborn won't work correctly if it sees a P3Dv4 entry but no files actually exist. In those cases you need to remove that P3Dv4 entry before running AILR. This file will remove the P3Dv4 entry...

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[-HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v4]

Use at your own risk but I've run these multiple times without issue.

@jackaustin, if you mean Aivlasoft’s EFB then yes, I’ve had the same problem.

It’s been a while since I flew the DA62 so my memory isn’t very good on the solution. Any changes in the EFB plan do get transferred to the DA62 so I think you need to use the aircraft GPS to change your active waypoint.

It doesn’t happen with the PMDG as it has its own navigation system. And I suspect the PC12 is less sophisticated than the Vertx which probably mirrors real life where waypoints would be entered via the unit, not externally.