Runway Lighting at night

[valleyboy]

On the runways at night there are two search beam trucks which illuminate the runway, when taxying and manouvering on the ground I can see that the lights are on as you can see the search light lamp on, but it is not illuminating the runway itself. When I take off, then the runway appears to be illuminated, but as soon as I land again, the illumination goes, but I can still see that the lamps are on.

 

Im not sure if this may be down to a setting for the graphics, or is it a feature ?

 

PC:

 

AMD XP3200

1Gb RAM

Windows XP SP3

XT1950 ATI Graphics card - AGP