15 hours ago, honanhal said:

I generally like the night lighting a LOT now, but this is one of exactly two things that annoy me (the other is that pink glow on the horizon even in the middle of the night that never goes away).

Not sure where you live but your avatar might suggest the UK. I little story from my military flying days.  Flying as crew on a C-130 Hercules from McMurdo, Antarctica to Christchurch, New Zealand during the summer austral season. Antarctica has that  3 o'clock in the afternoon look all day long as the Sun goes 360 degrees around the horizon. It dips a bit, but never actually sets at the height of the austral summer. Understandably, I had no idea what time it was in Antarctica when we left, but our arrival in New Zealand some 8 hours later was planned for about 6.00am, just as the Sun rose above the horizon at Christchurch. 

After three hours flying north, the Sun finally set.  But after another couple of hours all we had were a few non-descript stars and the belt of Venus, that is the pink glow on the horizon that's created by light scatter from zodiacal dust.  Of course at this point the Sun wasn't too far away from rising in Christchurch so this 'twilight zone' existed almost all the way to Christchurch when eventually the Sun rose again.  These were the days of sextants and celestial navigation so as you can imagine our Navigator was beside himself since not only did the partial lighting conditions render star observation all but useless, but there was no moon either! All credit to him though, he got us home safe and sound and we paid for his beer that night 🙂 .

Anyway, not sure where you were flying and not at all saying this is what you experienced but if someone asked me, I would say yes, there are combinations of flight departure/arrival times, seasons and high latitudes that can give you an all night pink horizon 🙂.   Really stuffs up your circadian rhythm too!  

Edited November 25, 20214 yr by Lord Farringdon

Night lighting is looking the best it's ever been since release. In my opinion it looks better than what we had at release and some would even say better than the alpha builds as well. There are still things that needs to be tweaked, but overall I'm very happy with how it looks now.

Asobo just needs to fix those ugly square aircraft lights, get rid of all instances of floating lights, get rid of runway lights being on 24/7. Improve the runway edge/taxi lighting at airports. They seem to be disappearing when you get closer.

I genuinely think that people who think the lighting is okay have never flown above FL250 at night.  Is the Minecraft golden mush texture not from FS98 days?  (I'm talking about mid to late horizon, the stuff up close looks fantastic). 

Edited November 25, 20214 yr by Langeveldt

7 hours ago, Lord Farringdon said:

Anyway, not sure where you were flying and not at all saying this is what you experienced but if someone asked me, I would say yes, there are combinations of flight departure/arrival times, seasons and high latitudes that can give you an all night pink horizon 🙂.   Really stuffs up your circadian rhythm too!  

Yeah, I spent some time in the summer in a city right near the Arctic circle some time back and remember that horizon glow (and totally destroyed circadian rhythms!) very well. 🙂

If the glow was only there in the right places in MSFS I’d never complain, but it happens at the equator too…