Help with Alabeo C310 dome light...

[mikebxb 20]

Hi all,

I have the 'Alabeo' C310R I love this bird. My only complaint is at night I cant get ALL the panel gauges to illuminate without having the overhead whole cabin light on!  Aaarghh! Hey it's great for reading charts etc. but really distracts from night flying and especially approaches. (I'm using FSX)

Any panel / lighting geniuses her have a work around. Thanks to Bert and a few others here I've had some success modifying a few windows and VCpanels but I haven't solved this one..

Thanks in advance

Link below shows a pic of the 310R panel properly lit with all gauges illuminated correctly without the overhead dome light lighting the whole cabin up. It looks great but darned if mine looks like that.

https://photos.app.goo.gl/G5ssfC6WQcep8nMx7

Edited May 13, 2021 by mikebxb

[rog943 14]

Hi mikebxb,

I just noticed your post.

I have an Alabeo Aztec and like it very much so I assume there may be similarities.  .  I'm still tweaking to get it to the way I remember the actual aircraft but nearly there (with some help from Bert and others - mainly Jean-Luc).

I too have problems flying at night as the instruments are quite dim.  In order to see the DME selector switch I need to have the Dome light on and I found a way to control this so it is operated by a button on the yoke.  If I use the light I can just make out the switch under the top of the panel.  Then I switch the light off.   The cockpit switch for the dome light is (on the Aztec) in the roof area with several other light switches but in practice  totally inaccessible during flight - hence the switch.  I used FSUIPC to assign the button.  I'll check all this and amend if I'm mistaken (memory!!).

Hope this helps a bit.

Rog

 

Edited June 20, 2021 by rog943