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Aircraft Lighting Improvements?

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I know this is a fairly niche inquiry but is anyone aware or heard anything about plans to improve the aircraft lighting. I'm a GA flyer mostly and the aircraft lighting (strobes and beacons specifically) are erm.... underwhelming to say the least. Almost impossible to see and incredibly faint anytime that is not nighttime. I think back how to A2A's Shockwave lights addon basically transformed the look and feel of aircraft lighting in FSX and I guess just miss that level of impressiveness, relatively speaking.

Don't get me wrong I think Asobo nailed the beacons on the tubeliners. Does anyone recall hearing anything in any of the dev Q&A sessions about the aircraft lighting? Are the effects that are implemented currently just placeholders? It was only recently that we got ground/water effects so I assume that's the case but was curious what other people's thoughts were on this topic?

p.s. I know there's a couple "lighting" mods out there on other sites but I haven't noticed those improving anything except for at night time.   

You are right.  The beacons look really good, but the strobes are poor.  Carenado in particular had the strobes right on their aircraft in FSX and P3D, but they look dim in comparison on the same aircraft is MSFS.  I heard it was another sim limitation on the effects side of things.  Probably not a priority, as Asobo have their hands full at the moment.

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I have posted several topics regarding this issue as well. The aircraft lights, especially when seen at a certain distance appears as blocks of squares (red, white, green). They have no realistic look to them at all. On my display, they resemble an oversized dead pixel. Here's a topic regarding the aircraft lights. Please offer your input and vote it up.

https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/square-looking-navigation-and-strobe-lights-on-ai-planes/443009

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Agreed, I also think the Taxi & Landing Lights could stand some increase in intensity. I struggle to see the runway on landing in night flights. Seems like they only illuminate about 10' in front of the aircraft. 

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Could always try these.....

https://uwajimaya.github.io/FS2020/

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