I have runway lighting working perfectly at dusk, dawn and night. But during the daytime I don't see the green centerline (runway and taxiway) or threshold lights in any of my addon sceneries by FlyTampa, FSDT etc.  Is this normal? expected?  In real world, does ATC turn off the lights in the day? 

Or should I still be able to see the taxi and runway centerline lights in the day?  If so, what setting would get me there??

In real life it differs some from country to country, but generally the lights are turned on during the day when the visibility is less than 3sm or the ceiling is less than 1000'ft.

Ok thanks. But for P3D should I be seeing runway lights diurnal the day?

No.  P3D always has lights off for DAY, they come on at DUSK.

Many scenery developers have started incorporating SODE to be able to switch on the lights for daytime low visibility, which is more realistic.  Basically, when the field goes IFR the lights (including beacon) come on.

Many scenery developers are now included a configuration file to allow the user to decide whether the runway lights are OFF or ON during the day to increase performance. Lights ON during the day impacts performance quite a bit.

Cheers, Ed

Thanks.  Anyone want to telll me which developers include daytime lighting so I can buy some. I have FSDT, imagine sim. DRZ design. Flytampa. And Flightbeam.  Any of those I can configure daytime runway lighting?

 

22 minutes ago, paulyg123 said:

Thanks.  Anyone want to telll me which developers include daytime lighting so I can buy some. I have FSDT, imagine sim. DRZ design. Flytampa. And Flightbeam.  Any of those I can configure daytime runway lighting?

 

When using SODE, the developers use an Environmental Probe (part of SODE) to test for night, dusk or low viz to turn on lights as well as check wx for wet pavement and wind check for windsocks.  LatinVFR uses this for KMIA, KMSY and Digital Design EDDP.  I don't have a list of all that do.

1 hour ago, paulyg123 said:

Any of those I can configure daytime runway lighting?

Paul

Essentially you can't add "daytime low visiblity approach / runway / taxiway lighting" to sceneries without the feature already (??)...... unless you have a day or 2 to lay it all out after learning how to.

Some of those developers you mention have airports with the feature which they normally list in their "shops".

At the moment as best I know it, the feature is included more with recent EU & Asian airports.

If you want to check your currrent, setup foggy weather & follow your AI on approach.

Edited January 25, 20215 yr by vadriver