Not only are the Beacon lights bright but since there is a reflector inside that rotates 300 degrees the light will shine across the inner tip tanks, bottom of the fuselage and even the tires as you showed in one of the images above. The Beacon on the vertical stabilizer will shine and rotate across the horizontal stabilizer.

 

This is the original that we released for P3D v4.3

 

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The old style mechanical rotating beacons do splash light on the wings and fuselage as they rotate side-to-side. I do think though, that the beacon and nav lights might still be a bit intense in V5 on the Lear, but they are 100% better than they were at first. The modified Falcon lights look a little less intense than the Lear.

We installed LED nav light upgrades on our Falcon 900s, and they are indeed extremely bright compared to the older incandescent lights. So much so, that if it becomes necessary to look directly at them from up close to see if any of the 20 individual LEDs has failed, we are required to use special goggles with darkened lenses that block UV light to avoid eye damage.

9 minutes ago, JRBarrett said:

We installed LED nav light upgrades on our Falcon 900s, and they are indeed extremely bright compared to the older incandescent lights. So much so, that if it becomes necessary to look directly at them from up close to see if any of the 20 individual LEDs has failed, we are required to use special goggles with darkened lenses that block UV light to avoid eye damage.

Very interesting. I guess since the purpose of the beacons is to warn others to 'keep away', I guess bright is good, especially if the visibility is poor.

Thanks for the info, Jim.

Al