night start-up - dark cockpit

[Tozzifan]

Hi,

I'm new to the sim and setting up a few training missions to get acquainted with ka50

 

willing to do a full start-up at night, when I launch the mission the cockpit is, of course, totally dark, and it's quite unconfortable to find the switches by touch :)

 

did I miss some kind of external illumination source?

 

thanks

[MTFDarkEagle]

Welcome!

 

Step 1) turn on batteries

Step 2) Look over your left shoulder for the cockpit flood light.

 

Carry on with the rest of the start up :)

[einar-st]

If you have tooltips on you can search around for Battery 1 and 2 and then turn on cockpit panel lighting... hehe.

[joker62]

Hi,

I'm new to the sim and setting up a few training missions to get acquainted with ka50

 

willing to do a full start-up at night, when I launch the mission the cockpit is, of course, totally dark, and it's quite unconfortable to find the switches by touch :)

 

did I miss some kind of external illumination source?

 

thanks

 

Tozzifan,

you can activate battery 1 or 2, then cockpit panel lighting, through keyboard.

After this, all switches and buttons in the cockpit will be visibles.

antonio.

[Tozzifan]

ops, I was thinking a little too realistic looking for airfield light source :D

[Jona33]

Ground power is your other option and then click the cockpit lights. On a FARP the light from the corners of each pad gets in so you can see a bit. Enough to get some power going anyway.

[MTFDarkEagle]

Jona: you still need to switch on the ground power to provide power to the aircraft :)