Lights switch inverted

[Pavlin_33]

Light switch inside the cockpit does not match the actual lights:

фонарь посад should turn on the landing lights - currently it turns on the taxi lights

рулеж  should turn on the taxi lights - currently is turns on the landing lights

 

 

[Ironhand]

No. You actually have the landing light on, when the switch is in the фонарь посад position in your image. I can tell because they angle off to the left. And the taxi lights are on in the рулeж image.

It’s deceptive in DCS because the landing lights are designed to throw a focused beam far into the distance. Hitting the ground, where they are in your image, they should be dazzlingly bright. But, in the sim, they are the same intensity whether lighting the ground immediately in front of you or 500 meters away. The taxi lights, on the other hand, are more diffused and light the ground immediately in front of you.

The settings from the outside:

LANDING LIGHTS:

 

TAXI LIGHTS:

Edited January 13, 2023 by Ironhand

[Pavlin_33]

On 1/12/2023 at 8:59 PM, Ironhand said:

No. You actually have the landing light on, when the switch is in the фонарь посад position in your image. I can tell because they angle off to the left. And the taxi lights are on in the рулeж image.

It’s deceptive in DCS because the landing lights are designed to throw a focused beam far into the distance. Hitting the ground, where they are in your image, they should be dazzlingly bright. But, in the sim, they are the same intensity whether lighting the ground immediately in front of you or 500 meters away. The taxi lights, on the other hand, are more diffused and light the ground immediately in front of you.

The settings from the outside:

...

Any chance you could take the outside screenshots with a camera a bit lower to the ground, so all the lights are visible?
I am away from DCS at the moment.

If what you wrote is correct, then there's a different bug I need to raise, 'cause having these so called "landing lights" is useless
Having an offset spotlight, can't really be considered a landing light 'cause at best it can be used for taxiing
 

[Ironhand]

I can and will when I’m next at my computer. The landing lights on these Russian aircraft (at least) are offset to the left as in the sim. This came up several years ago and I found videos showing the landing lights offset to the left. Further, their orientation fits with the instruction as to where the pilot should be looking, when landing.

Edited January 26, 2023 by Ironhand

[draconus]

1 hour ago, Pavlin_33 said:

Having an offset spotlight, can't really be considered a landing light 'cause at best it can be used for taxiing

This is correct as is. Forward sight is not great at high AoA so the angled "ground check" is advised at night landing.

 

[Ironhand]

I thought it’d be simple to lower the camera but I couldn’t do it. There used to be a command to remove the terrain restriction but I couldn’t find it. Anyway, the landing light:

And the taxi light:

The following is a short video to demonstrate how the landing light is used in conjunction with where the pilot is supposed to be looking:

 

[Pavlin_33]

Well I can't really argue much here, as I don't have any other data to disprove what you guys wrote. I am just perplexed that the taxi lights offer much better visibility than the landing ones do.

Thanks again for the screenshots @Ironhand.

[draconus]

14 minutes ago, Pavlin_33 said:

I am just perplexed that the taxi lights offer much better visibility than the landing ones do.

Only on the ground when you... taxi, different lights with different purposes.

[Ironhand]

6 hours ago, Pavlin_33 said:

Well I can't really argue much here, as I don't have any other data to disprove what you guys wrote. I am just perplexed that the taxi lights offer much better visibility than the landing ones do...

Some of that might be how DCS currently handles lighting. They simply aren't as intense as they might be. But they do angle off to the left in real life as strange as it might seem from a Western perspective. OTOH, there are a number of things in this aircraft that might feel odd but actually are the way they are, not the least of which is a FBW aircraft that needs constant trimming.