correct as is AR Status/NWS Indicator lights not working when starting mission at night

[colasmulo]

Hello fellow pilots.

 

I noticed that when starting a mission at an hour considered as night, the AR Status/NWS Indicator lights in the F-16C cockpit do not seem to be working at all.

Using two mission files on Syria and Persian Gulf maps I was able to reproduce the problem, when starting the mission around 5:30am, and the problem was not reproduced when starting the mission around 5pm.

 

In the attached track file I start an F-16 at night and start taxiing, activating and desactivating the NWS and air refueling switches. They both work as seen by the plane being able to turn and the AR valve opening, but the indicator lights do not turn on in the cockpit.

The track is from a multiplayer flight but I was able to reproduce the problem in single player.

 

I'm running the game on Openbeta 2.7.0.4625, my specs are i9-9600k, RTX2070S, 32Gb DDR4 RAM, game installed on an SSD.

server-20210416-231449.trk

[Chain_1]

The dimmers for those lights are all the way dim, and the AoA lights are the same.  They're on the outside of the light housing and you have to move them up.  This has gotten me before, too.

[BIGNEWY]

Hi,

 

please use the dimmer leaver on the side to increase the brightness.

 

thanks

[Machalot]

2 hours ago, BIGNEWY said:

Hi,

 

please use the dimmer leaver on the side to increase the brightness.

 

thanks

Why are they initially turned off when starting at night, but not day? 

[BIGNEWY]

47 minutes ago, Machalot said:

Why are they initially turned off when starting at night, but not day? 

 

I dont have an answer for you, I will ask again, last time I asked it was as intended. 

[colasmulo]

Many thanks for the answers, I had no idea these levers existed. With that information it could make sense that they are turned all the way down by default at night so the pilot has to adjust them to whatever the lightning  conditions are when he starts the plane.

[Chain_1]

I don't have a F-16 Dash 1, but I'd guess in the checklist all interior lights are set to off until after engine start, where there's probably a step along the lines of "Interior Lights - As Required." Just a guess though.

[Machalot]

42 minutes ago, Chain_1 said:

I don't have a F-16 Dash 1, but I'd guess in the checklist all interior lights are set to off until after engine start, where there's probably a step along the lines of "Interior Lights - As Required." Just a guess though.

So maybe the indexer lights should be off for daytime starts too.

[Bunny Clark]

On 4/17/2021 at 11:13 AM, Machalot said:

Why are they initially turned off when starting at night, but not day? 

My guess is because they're hella bright with NVGs. Before the dimmer function was enabled for them NVGs were barely useable in the viper because of the enormous bloom to the left the HUD all the time.