Mark Cherry wrote in message ...
In news:un_9b.489270$uu5.84118@sccrnsc04,
Marc wrote:

I notice in a number of flight simultors that the airports tend to be
lit up far brighter than they are in real life. In FS2004 you can
pick out the airport pretty easily by the spot green light or runway
lights that kind of jump out of the scenary. In real life it is much
more subtle, especially in an urban area where the airport can get
lost among the thousands of city lights nearby.

Any method for making the airport lights less distnictive or just
turning them down?


This is interesting. In another newsgroup cough I've seen at least two
different threads started by people asking how they can get the runway/taxiway
lighting BRIGHTER. What gives?

I think the problem with FS2002 and 2004 is that the city lights aren't bright
enough.

Fly over Vegas or London at night; they don't look as bright and city-like as
they should - whereas the runway light effects look perfectly bright. This
makes the runways look too bright to people like Marc who like landing in urban
airports.

I normally fly from EGPC (Wick, Scotland) or EGPD (Dyce, Scotland) where there
is either little or no city surrounding the airfield.

Some airstrips with LIAL (Low-Intensity Airport Lighting) are too dark, IMHO; I
once flew right over Stornaway airport while looking for the runway, and didn't
spot it until it was too late... TO/GA time !!

Cheers
Graeme