That makes sense, I have no mods installed. But the deck is not dark, so I guess it’s a glitch due to the way they did the weather. At least I know what it is now. I have never flown a night mission, off the carrier anyway. I’ve never seen it and that signal doesn’t show in any of the manuals. Ok so I powered through and saluted and off I went. The strange thing about this mission was they told me I was clear to take off at cat 3 I taxied to cat 3 and the plane director (yellow shirt standing in the middle of the rail) did nothing, everything I tried, nothing. I taxied to all 3 other cats and they all started directing me up to the shuttle. So odd. So with that going on and the strange signal, I was confused. I reset it 5 times before I got off the deck. Thanks for the help.
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