Su-25 Bug or feature? Taxi/Landing Light spot cycle messed up at start at runway.

[Col. Clark GRUNT Half]

Hi!

I found that the Su-25 (and T) operating cycle for Taxi/Landing lights is as follows:

 

1: Off

2: Lights near (Taxi)

3: Lights far (T/O and Landing)

4: Goto 1

 

When I do a "Takeoff from Runway" the ext lights are set to far (takeoff) position, but are switching to taxi, which is alterating after one cycle.

 

Bug or feature?

 

A "full cycle" would be:

1: Off

2: Taxi

3: T/O - Landing

4: Taxi

5: Goto 1

Since I would need the taxi after landing, would not I?

 

 

In summation with having no readout I easily become a christmas-tree flying ground attacks.

 

Whats the real deal?

[159th_Falcon]

Landing lights should retract and extinguish automatically when the gear is retracted.

[aap_flanker]

A "full cycle" would be:

1: Off

2: Taxi

3: T/O - Landing

4: Taxi

5: Goto 1

 

I agree with this!

In fact until fc1.12 this was the secuence for all russian aircraft (I'm not sure if that was also the secuence for american a/c) and then when changed to FC2 this change to actual secuence "off,near,far,off" that is still the secuence in FC3....

[Col. Clark GRUNT Half]

Landing lights should retract and extinguish automatically when the gear is retracted.

 

Falcon, at no point I questioned this. It's rather the realistic cycle, the cockpit switch (threeway or cycle), the cycle (if any), the readout and the altered behaviour if starting from runway.

 

In fact landing lights do extinguish when gear is retracted and the last state is reproduced when/after extending the landing gear.

 

The main problem is, there is no readout in the cockpit to assure the lights' status w/o ext views which I refer to as a cheat.