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Northern Lights

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With video editing I incorporated real world Northern Lights/Aurora Borealis into a flight over Greenland. The lights are from 15:05 to 18:55. Would be great to have this feature in the sim for those Northern Flights!

 

As long as you had some control over them, otherwise it will end up like the rainbows where in some weather conditions they are just everywhere.

FSX had them and I am sure they will be featured in MSFS sooner or later.

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14 hours ago, Glenn Fitzpatrick said:

As long as you had some control over them, otherwise it will end up like the rainbows where in some weather conditions they are just everywhere.

Quite true. However, the effect would not be seen everywhere. It could be tied to clear skies and only to the GPS position of the aircraft relative to the real world Aurora oval. Here is the Aurora forecast map.

https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/products/aurora-30-minute-forecast

12 hours ago, MrFuzzy said:

FSX had them and I am sure they will be featured in MSFS sooner or later.

No, FSX didn't.  They were in FS-2002 and FS-2004, I don't remember if they were in FS-2000 (probably not.)

11 hours ago, andyjohnston.net said:

No, FSX didn't.  They were in FS-2002 and FS-2004, I don't remember if they were in FS-2000 (probably not.)

Oh, I was confused with 2004 then...

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