January 19, 20233 yr It's usually not that dark in the cockpit, there's enough surrounding lights on an airport and the human eye adapts better to darkness than the virtual eye in the sim. Apart from that finding the battery switch and the dome light switch is something every pilot can literally do blindly for the aircraft he's rated on, especially with the haptic dimension we don't have in front of the PC. It takes 2 seconds to have lights in the cockpit. It takes more time for me to find the bathroom door at night. For transparency: I'm a community mentor at the BATC discord. However, I do not get paid for it in any way.
January 19, 20233 yr We actually have a lot of tight downs at smaller airports that not lit at all. On a moonless night its not only it's hard to find parked aircraft but also a challenge to do proper preflight - especially check fuel and oil . Of course if we park at FBO or transient ramp they sometime they are lit, but mileage can vary depending on airport. I have two set of lights in my flight bag, but my phone always quick and easy to access. During preflight we flick master switch just to check lights and drop flaps for preflight. So cockpit is not lit until engines are running. Even at our local FBO when hangar doors are closed it is absolutely dark at the ramp ! It's not uncommon to see corporate pilot using they phone light crawling back to their jet to start APU! Once after late night flight I walked back to the ramp in absolute darkness and accidently bumped my head at the tail of parked King Air. LOL There was my first Darwin award for not using flash light LOL Life time flight sim enthusiast, current airplane owner 172P (past C182F). FAA CP/IR ASEL/AMEL, FI ASELMy System: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D , MSI X870 GAMING PLUS, 64G RAM, ASUS RTX5090, 4T SSDPut my hands on (pic/dual/given)7GCAA, 8KCAB, BE24, BE76, BE35-C33, BE35, C150, C152, C172B/N/P/R/SP, 182F, M20E,M20C, M20J, AT6(SNJ4), PA28-140,PA28-151, PA28-161,PA28-181,PA28RT-201,PA28R-180/201T, PA24-250, PA32-300R, PA44, AC114, YAK-18T, YAK-52, SR22
January 20, 20233 yr Hey guys, well from experience i do flying contract every years from mid may to early july and we began our flight around 03:45 in the morning been using a PA-31 and BE-100 and you have to use a flashlight to navigate around the swicth to see , mind you, we are at small airports in the province of quebec canada Jean Couillard 98003xd . Asus rog strix B650E-f gaming .Kinston fury rgb 64g DDR5-6000 cl30 .asus rtx4080s .Artic Freezer111 240 rgb. FSP HydroG pro 1000G+ .CorsairMP700 2TB pci.e5 XPG s11 pro 1TB M.2 . Lian-LI LANCOOL11 mesh perf . AW3821DW 3840x1600@144Hz .corsair K70 RGB . corsair M65 pro . TCA joystick,winwing(FCU,EFIS,MCDU,USRA throttle and PAC32 metal,AGP32) tiller from ETSY
January 20, 20233 yr 17 hours ago, SquadronLeader said: Brilliant Gents Many thanks It's just Alt-L Noel System: 9900X3D Noctua NH-D15 G2, MSI Pro 650-P WiFi, G.SKILL 64GB (2 x 32GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 6000, WD NVMe 2Tb x 1, Sabrent NVMe 2Tb x 1, RTX 4090 FE, Corsair RM1000W PSU, Win11 Home, LG Ultra Curved Gsync Ultimate 3440x1440, Phanteks Enthoo Pro Case, TCA Boeing Edition Yoke & TQ, Cessna Trim Wheel, RTSS Framerate Limiter w/ Front Edge Sync. Aircraft used in MSFS 2024: Fenix A320, Aerosoft CRJ, FBW, WT 787X, I-Fly 737 MAX 8, Citation Longitude.
January 20, 20233 yr 1 hour ago, Noel said: It's just Alt-L Yes it is just ALT-L . Unfortunately it was too late to modify the original post.
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