Lear Panel lightning at night

[zazaboeing 15]

Hi all,

Have anyone managed to reach pedestal switches or see anything at night in the wonderful Lear? The thrust levers, fuel panel and center pedestal is pitch black for me at night.

Starting from cold and dark at night, is REALLY dark. Almost an impossible task. This kills night simulation for the Lear. 
 

thanks

[aerostar 42]

Rotary switches on side cockpit walls - 

[sloppysmusic 169]

These rotatories are all fully dimmable now... Perfect for tweaking however I want when it gets cloudy. I know these were once crippled to on and off only to save VAS and I had to mod the plane to get them dimmable again. After a years break I came back and they all dim wonderfully blending in with the cockpit texture updates. Thanks for improving even more my favorite (equal with the a2a mustang) plane! 

[zazaboeing 15]

On 12/16/2019 at 3:35 PM, aerostar said:

Rotary switches on side cockpit walls - 

Thanks for the reply! of course I did turn the rotary knobs but they don’t light anything in the thrust lever pedestal, as you can see in your photo. You can’t see TL, flaps handle, on the AFCS you can’t see the fire extinguisher switches, TR switches position, and many other stuff.

We need some kind of floodlight, (I know the Lear doesn’t have any dome) but in the real world you would plainly see all these mentioned switches, just as they are lit by the panel itself. A Dynamic Lightning profile would be very much appreciated.

 

Thanks

[capceo 117]

Just as a notable mention, we actually gave several areas of the cockpit which do not have EL backlighting at night, backlighting in the sim. Things that would be basically impossible to find without it.

For example, the rotary knobs for the panel lights don't have any lights at all in the real airplane (ironic). The flap gate also doesn't have EL backlighting in the real airplane, and neither do the oxygen control knobs.

[DrumsArt 270]

On 12/16/2019 at 6:48 PM, zazaboeing said:

Hi all,

Have anyone managed to reach pedestal switches or see anything at night in the wonderful Lear? The thrust levers, fuel panel and center pedestal is pitch black for me at night.

Starting from cold and dark at night, is REALLY dark. Almost an impossible task. This kills night simulation for the Lear. 
 

thanks

Hi Rafael,

To remedy this there is a small program called LorbyFlashLight (free program) that simulates a flashlight (as in reality). It is not only very useful in Lear but also for all other aircraft (GAs or TubeLiners) when they are C&D during a moonless night ;-).
Here it is:

http://www.lorby-si.com/downloads.html

I use it during the beginning of a Lear video I made in August:

Richard.

Edited December 31, 2019 by DrumsArt