correct as-is F16 Lights switched around

[nilsb89]

Position lights on the F16 are the wrong way around. The Wing/tair switch controls the fuselage and the other way around.

[_SteelFalcon_]

nope, it's correct.
you can easily find the explanation to how this works in a certain manual page 1-149

in short: wing/tail -> red and green lights on wingtips and inlet + white light at the back of the plane above the engine
fuselage -> white light for tailfin illumination

[Tholozor]

In addition, if a switch is in the OFF position, its brightness is variably controlled by the FORM knob. To completely turn a set of lights off, the Master knob must be in COVERT or OFF.

[Frederf]

It is confusing but "fuselage" are the lights which are mounted on the fuselage which shine on the tail. They're forward of the speedbrakes on each side. They're just white flood lights.

The wing/tail lights are all the red/green/white position lights dotted around the aircraft. There are two on each wingtip (upper and lower), air intake, and a white on the tip of the base of the tail facing aft. The position lights double as part of the formation lights set which is why the upper half of the wingtip lights are controlled by the formation knob. Things are a little more complicated out of NORM position in the 3 covert positions because not everything has an infrared understudy compliment.

The real airplane would probably be less confusing if WING/TAIL label was "POSITION" and FUSELAGE was "TAIL FLOOD" but the simulation is accurate.

[Diesel_Thunder]

I agree with the above posts. I’ll also add that the Formation knob overides the switch settings. Unfortunately for us, that knob defaults to on no matter if it’s a cold start, hot start, or air start. It’s become part on my process to turn that knob off when I jump into the Viper.