Guiding lights wrong?

Sebastian · Post by **Sebastian** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 6:45 am

I am a member of 9dragons and we spent a lot of time on the correct alignment and timing of the lights, especially the wide line of lights in the beginning of the corner.

I just found time for a two minute look around and at night the lights are on constantly on that line.

I will have a closer look at it later on, but that can take some time. Perhaps, this is only a problem of my system or I am simpy wrong.

P.S.
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Post by **martin[flytampa]** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 3:33 pm

Thank you for the kind words

Approach lights are mostly based on the following video. The Lead-In curve poles have both static lights and flashing strobes, but the strobes only become active at night in the FS2004 version.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFkZY12lISU

jgoggi · Post by **jgoggi** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 1:42 am

Excuse me Martin, but why do the curved lights work as flashing strobes only at night? In real life they flash also during the day. Is it a FS9 limitation?
Thanks,
James

Post by **martin[flytampa]** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 2:39 am

In the scenery they don't flash at daytime because I find the flashing barely noticeable in the video linked above. I see its there, but I perceive them as static especially when compared to the 3 outer strobes.

Then there is this night video where at the 2:20 timemark the night flashing sequence pops out very intense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFkZY12lISU

So between those 2 sources, I decided that having the strong night flashing all day long wasn't the effect I wanted.

miketower21 · Post by **miketower21** » Tue Jul 08, 2008 8:51 am

martin[flytampa] wrote:In the scenery they don't flash at daytime because I find the flashing barely noticeable in the video linked above. I see its there, but I perceive them as static especially when compared to the 3 outer .

Then there is this night video where at the 2:20 timemark the night flashing sequence pops out very intense.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFkZY12lISU

So between those 2 sources, I decided that having the strong night flashing all day long wasn't the effect I wanted.

Sebastian · Post by **Sebastian** » Wed Jul 09, 2008 3:31 am

The youtube video is in bad quality, I do see the flashing! This flashing simply belongs to the approach procedure as it is described in the supplements.

For a real flying experience they should flash day and night. Don`t take old videos as a reference, the real view was much better.

Please, create an option to see the real light setting.