i quote a post that i found on this forum... is it really this poor situation with RWY lights ? The strange fact is that we did some tests and the result is rather weird: with default airports, no RWY light issues, only with payware as LFMN, KJFK, EHAM, EDDF, EGKK, EBBR...it is as the sim does not detect the approach of my airbus, or it does, but way too late... it detects AS Airbus better then FSLabs airbus. Very annoying to have no lighting in approach...also poor comment here under where it states that nobody seems to care about this ?

 

The good old runway light popping bug again...

The answer is no, there is not. The runway/taxi lights draw angle/distance bug has been present since the very beginning of this sim. It was even reported and discussed when ACES was in charge and they said it was an old optimization feature that should some day be fixed. It never was. It has then been reported to LM for years. At some point they confirmed that they would look into it but they never did. This was P3Dv3 or v4 I think. It was in P3Dv1 an it's still present in the latest P3Dv5.

Amazingly enough most people don't seem to care about this issue. Some even still to this day deny its existence

Rwy lights with payware airports are mostly controlled by SODE. I have EBBR (Justsim) and no problems with rwy lights. In fact, I changed the SODE file to have the lights on all day, not just when darkness.

 

Thx Willy, interesting !  

Can you inform me how i can put EBBR lights on all the time as you did ? How to in SODE ?

Thx

+1 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

In EBBR.XML, located at  C:\ProgramData\12bPilot\SODE\xml  , look for a line

<Condition ID="B" Variable="TimeOfDay" Value="DAWN;DUSK;NIGHT"/>

change it to

<Condition ID="B" Variable="TimeOfDay" Value="DAY;DAWN;DUSK;NIGHT"/>