There should be an option to ask ATC to turn the intensity up/down while on final. Thats what i regularly hear at work.

That would be a killer feature. For that however different levels of intensity would have to be modelled first, which I'm pretty sure didn't happen. Also, for the mid-term future I'd love these things to be adjustable by ATC, be it VATSIM, POSCON or whatever.

Also on a similar note, I wish city lights would turn on based on how dark it is outside as sometimes the storms make the sim really dark to where the street lights would be on irl. 

Also noticed that the REILs seems extremely bright during daytime in the numerous YouTube uploads. It seems to me, runway and centerline lights get lighter and darker depending on runway alignment, similar to real life.....But REILs and  MALSFs are visible from miles away. Hopefully someone figures out how to turn down intensity. If not, oh well

What about at uncontrolled airports? They shouldn't be on when approaching an airport unless an AI aircraft has landed or taken off in the last 15 minutes(?) and turned them on. It would be nice to also change the intensity from the cockpit using the mic.  

On 8/12/2020 at 1:37 AM, gewilson said:

Also noticed that the REILs seems extremely bright during daytime in the numerous YouTube uploads. It seems to me, runway and centerline lights get lighter and darker depending on runway alignment, similar to real life.....But REILs and  MALSFs are visible from miles away. Hopefully someone figures out how to turn down intensity. If not, oh well

Yes, inset runway lights seem to be direction dependant by default. However in many cases edge lights are omnidirectional irl. The visuals of REILs and rabbits are really poor during daytime just as you say, and their activation schedule is also very off. REILs are active even during daytime quite often, sequenced flashes are mostly not. While or even because there might be no right or wrong way to do this for the entire world, I hope these things will get more flexibility in the future.

Took a night flight last night and the REIL look awful IMO. No subtle intensity as you approach from a distance. They are just overly bright quick flashing blocks.

Edited August 19, 20205 yr by Morishita

Is there an easy, quick way to edit airports so I can remove some of the lights or make them react to time of day?

For example, I'd like to keep the PAPI lights at EDBM, but deactivate the running lights, which usually are off during daytime.

(And it's somehow cheating if you fly VFR to an unknown airport, but can see it way too early, many miles ahead just because of unrealistic and overly bright lights ...).

@MarioDonick AFAIK default airports can’t be edited yet. At least that’s what I read on the official forums 

Runway lights are always on in Norway. Its country based rules.

I wanted to test it but I had very little hope and... it doesn't work. I went on a small airfield (LFDI in France), the airport map says it has PCL on Rwy 04/22 (asphalt) but I couldn't turn the lights on in the sim. I tried to talk on the radio, i tried to switch to UNICOM (123.45 in France) but no option to turn lights on or simulate the radio button press.

 

And not only light can be controlled by pilot.
At Lake Hood Airport, the taxiway cross a road and a gate close the taxiway. this gate can be open the same, by clicking on the PushToTalk button of the pilot (3x for this gate and 5x for the gate closing the road crossing the taxiway running from Lake Hood Airport to Anchorage Airport. 
See the airport diagram :

http://dot.alaska.gov/anc/business/generalAviation/LHD_Diagram_June2012.pdf

Edited June 14, 20214 yr by nirgal76

ASOBO can easily fix it so runway lights are off during daylight hours. Moreover, they could do away with the unrealistic "Ground, N9572, please tell the pushbag tug to turn left" and replace it with you requesting the runway lights on / off / brighter / dimmer. Bonus points if you can get it to respond to just clicks of the mic button.

On 8/2/2020 at 1:06 AM, Janov said:

To my knowledge this has never been implemented in any simulator and it would be an even more confusing feature (for most) than having to call the tower and ask for the lights to be turned on 😉

 

We actually had this in Terminal Reality's Fly! series for years.  I think it took 5 clicks to activate Pilot-Controlled lighting - I had the transmit button assigned to my backspace key.

As we added or updated/edited/corrected runways and lighting systems, I always checked the RW airport for this feature and replicated it if it existed.

Edited June 15, 20214 yr by RandallR

I'm pretty sure that I saw this in FSX.  But that was during my PPL traing days so who knows.

Regards

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