Placeable Runway Lights

[Hawkmoon]

hi, i was building a road farp and noticed that if i wanted to take off or land at night on a improvised runway i can't place indicator lights to indicate every important markpoint (runway start-end, a rudimentary ALS, etc etc) so i thing it would be nice (and even low effort) to make small lights that can be placed, not much, just one steady and one flashing, with different colors

Because right now we can only land using NVG or flying really low with the landing light on especially with planes that don't have TACAN or any radionavigation aid

a dream come true would be a placeable ILS but i guess that is a bit much to ask

[Northstar98]

+1, though I'd extend it to just lights in general; runway lights, floodlights/portable lights, beacons etc.

And definitely +1 for NAVAIDs, I wished for a similar thing here a few years ago (though now we have a portable TACAN we can place in the mission editor). For ILS, the functionality kinda already exists with ICLS for aircraft carriers, just missing an appropriate model.

Edited January 11, 2022 by Northstar98

[Mike Force Team]

What about adding backup power generators?  

[Mike_Romeo]

On 1/11/2022 at 12:09 PM, Hawkmoon said:

hi, i was building a road farp and noticed that if i wanted to take off or land at night on a improvised runway i can't place indicator lights to indicate every important markpoint (runway start-end, a rudimentary ALS, etc etc) so i thing it would be nice (and even low effort) to make small lights that can be placed, not much, just one steady and one flashing, with different colors

Because right now we can only land using NVG or flying really low with the landing light on especially with planes that don't have TACAN or any radionavigation aid

a dream come true would be a placeable ILS but i guess that is a bit much to ask

You could create a trigger zones which releases every min a illumination flare over the farp if a plane is inside that zone.

Edited January 13, 2022 by Mike_Romeo

[Hawkmoon]

2 hours ago, Mike_Romeo said:

You could create a trigger zones which releases every min a illumination flare over the farp if a plane is inside that zone.

 

 illumination flares could be useful but they totally ruin the immersion and you have to hope there is no wind, also they won't be any good as a rudimentary ALS or as a marker for start and end of a runway/taxiway

i guess 10 cm pole with a light on it could be very easy to do and to implement, we don't need nothing more

[Hawkmoon]

something like this 

[Hawkmoon]

 something like this

[Mike Force Team]

Another way to make the runways lights "movable" is to run over them with street sweepers or with lawn mowing equipment. 

[Northstar98]

On 1/13/2022 at 4:35 PM, Mike_Romeo said:

You could create a trigger zones which releases every min a illumination flare over the farp if a plane is inside that zone.

Unless you're only interested in illuminating the general area, or having a fireworks display, this isn't really a solution.

Edited January 15, 2022 by Northstar98

[Rudel_chw]

There is a Mod that has this type of light, but I would have to check if it still works on dcs 2.7

 

 

 

[Hawkmoon]

On 1/14/2022 at 2:13 AM, Rudel_chw said:

There is a Mod that has this type of light, but I would have to check if it still works on dcs 2.7

 

 

 

do you have a link?

[Scotty Rotten]

Would also love to have this if possible.

On 1/14/2022 at 3:13 AM, Rudel_chw said:

There is a Mod that has this type of light, but I would have to check if it still works on dcs 2.7