IRL console lights are amber.

[Rissala]

Currently the console lights are the same colour as the instrument panels. Don't know if this applies to all Hornets but in the F/A-18C, the console lights (not instrument) are this "Boeing amber" colour, the same as in any legacy Boeing airliner cockpit.

This is the entire purpose of the NVG switch, as the amber colour is not compatible with NVGs. I don't know if the US Navy retrofitted the consoles with a green light filter but the base configuration has amber lights.

Edited February 23, 2024 by Rissala

[Rissala]

I found 1 picture online of a simpit that has the correct lighting.

[Tholozor]

For some additional context, the following example (VFA-136, 2004 on CVN-72) shows the console backlighting is definitely green when the cockpit lighting is not in the DAY position (evidenced by the IFEI lighting being green). I am unaware whether or not the console backlighting is capable of more than one color, or simply has on/off states.

[Rissala]

22 hours ago, Tholozor said:

For some additional context, the following example (VFA-136, 2004 on CVN-72) shows the console backlighting is definitely green when the cockpit lighting is not in the DAY position (evidenced by the IFEI lighting being green). I am unaware whether or not the console backlighting is capable of more than one color, or simply has on/off states.
 

Those are not console panel lights, those are instrument panel lights. That is what I tried to make very clear on my first reply. Your photo shows the instrument panels.

The instrument panels do have a green colour and that is correctly represented in the game.

Edited February 23, 2024 by Rissala

[Tholozor]

Do you have any examples that aren't of Super Hornets though?

[Rissala]

23 minutes ago, Tholozor said:

Do you have any examples that aren't of Super Hornets though?

I already PM'd @BIGNEWY some evidence. Thats all I can say.

[Kurnass1977]

Il 22/2/2024 at 16:11, Rissala ha scritto:

I found 1 picture online of a simpit that has the correct lighting.

This's a Super Bug I think, look at the UFC, is a "touchscreen", without physical buttons/knobs

Just my two cents...

[Rissala]

On 2/23/2024 at 10:34 PM, Kurnass1977 said:

This's a Super Bug I think, look at the UFC, is a "touchscreen", without physical buttons/knobs

Just my two cents...

Yes I am aware that this is a superbug. The cockpit lighting is the same in the legacy Hornet (which the superbug is obviously based on).
I could not find pictures of the legacy Hornet cockpit with lights on, so I used that as an example of what it should look like. I already discussed this with BN sharing my insight.

This topic is here since I don't know if the US Navy retrofitted their entire Hornet-C fleet with green backlights before 2004 and also because this is not really a bug. The true answer could be that some were retrofitted and some were not.

 

[BIGNEWY]

Our references show green, without evidence for our block and year we are unlikely to change. But thank you for the DM in discord.

 

[SkateZilla]

On 2/23/2024 at 3:34 PM, Kurnass1977 said:

This's a Super Bug I think, look at the UFC, is a "touchscreen", without physical buttons/knobs

Just my two cents...

It can be a Super Hornet or a Export Lot 21/22, or the few and far between F/A-18C++'s that are now cancelled, that were being upgraded out of Cecil for the USMC.

As far as the panel colors, it would need to be public data and not a manual that's still restricted, I don't have active samples here to sit in and check IRL anymore (all USN Legacy hornets have been retired). But the last I remember is earlier and export lots had both colors, the later USN blocks only had green to unify instrument panel scheme, as the amber is more commonly linked to warning lights, reduce workload of having to switch, green is more carrier friendly. Amber lighting had no advantage in visibility vs the green, so the green was made permanent by the USN..