Switch for runway light

[Ares63]

When there is an human ATC (on different radio channel for not to superimpose the coms with AI ) there is not way to switch on the runway lights.

A button in F10 map or something else is wished

[Mars Exulte]

Unmanned airports with runway lights, in RL you use the radio to turn them on, transmitting on the correct freq and lights come on/off. So, yeah, you should use the radio anyway. There is no ''switch''. Larger airports will alwats be manned, thus you'd communicate with ATC, it's only little ones you'd even be doing this. I do not know how the small airports work in DCS as I rarely use AI atc anyway. It's possible they already work like this. I'll test later.

Edited February 8, 2020 by zhukov032186

[OttoPus]

When there is an human ATC (on different radio channel for not to superimpose the coms with AI ) there is not way to switch on the runway lights.

A button in F10 map or something else is wished

 

This is much needed feature!

 

+100

[Kang]

They are kind of supposed to work like 'call inbound and you get some lights', but in practice, they often just don't. It might be that this particular mechanic only works based of local time or height of the sun, which leaves them off and dark in other conditions of bad visibility.

[Northstar98]

+1 would definitely like this feature. I'll second the experience Kang described, I've had missions which while technically daylight, were in complete overcast and a thunderstorm. Sure above the clouds and it was fairly bright out below the clouds however, it was very dark.

 

It might be an idea to have lighting as a triggerable action... Just a thought.

 

Hmmm, wonder if we could get static objects with lights we can trigger on or off too...

[AegisFX]

Irl in the USA, you tune in to the frequency of the airport, and click the PTT. You can cycle through high or low intensity. After a few minutes, (15 iirc), lights go off. It could be useful, but all of the airfields we have are manned 24/7 anyway.