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Taxi-ing at Night
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Sat Dec 03, 2005 10:53 amby G-EORGE
Am i the only person who finds it bloody difficult to see the taxiways when making a night landing??. I know the blue lights mark the edges of the taxiways, but I can never tell where they actualy meet the runway, and progressive instructions don't work until the aeroplane is actually off the rwy.
Does anyone know of a way of making either the taxiway markings or the lights brighter - I get fed up with taxi-ing to the terminal via the grass...
Re: Taxi-ing at Night
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Sat Dec 03, 2005 3:01 pmby elite marksman
Try turining the taxi/landing lights on, they generally help you see. ;)
Re: Taxi-ing at Night
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Sat Dec 03, 2005 5:52 pmby G-EORGE
I had gathered that :) My problem is not actually during the taxi, its finding a taxi way of the rwy after i land,
Re: Taxi-ing at Night
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Sat Dec 03, 2005 9:24 pmby elite marksman
try the airport enviroment upgrade, it makes the lights a lot brighter among other things.
Re: Taxi-ing at Night
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Sat Dec 03, 2005 9:28 pmby Icelandair Pilot
airport environment upgrade free and excellent
Re: Taxi-ing at Night
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Sun Dec 04, 2005 11:55 amby don_7747
G eorge, Same problem has me upset too.
FS 98 was much better in that regard.
Don
Re: Taxi-ing at Night
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Sun Dec 04, 2005 11:57 amby don_7747
Elite and Iceland,
Where can I find the upgrade you are refering to?
Don
Re: Taxi-ing at Night
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Sun Dec 04, 2005 1:37 pmby elite marksman
Sorry, I dont remember
Re: Taxi-ing at Night
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Sun Dec 04, 2005 6:48 pmby don_7747
If you think of it, please let me know.
Thanks.
Don
Re: Taxi-ing at Night
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Sun Dec 04, 2005 8:37 pmby JerryH
If you don't find the airport environment upgrade, just turning down (or off) the room lights can make a big difference.
Regards,
JerryH
Re: Taxi-ing at Night
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Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:52 amby Sytse
www.avsim.com --> airport environment upgrade 8)
Re: Taxi-ing at Night
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Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:51 pmby elite marksman
No wonder I couldn't find it when I looked there. I spelled environment wrong. 3.0 is the latest version for 02, 7.0 is out but it's fs9 only.
Re: Taxi-ing at Night
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Tue Dec 06, 2005 10:48 amby G-EORGE
If you don't find the airport environment upgrade, just turning down (or off) the room lights can make a big difference.
Regards,
JerryH
I had a quick try with the room lights off and it seemed much better, Isn't it bad for your eyes though?
Re: Taxi-ing at Night
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Tue Dec 06, 2005 3:42 pmby Bourgoignie
Hello,
The problem of not finding the way throught a dark airport scenery is well known.
You could add yourself lights to a scenery by using Airport for Windows 2.6. It is not so difficult to do this... but you can try and... succeed.
I am myself rebuilding the airport of EBOS and have spend a lot of energy to make nightflying possible. This scenery will be released very soon.
The scenery is made part with Airport for Windows and the buildings with GMAX.
On the screenshot an exemple of what you can do: adding holdshorts, centerlights and blue lights.
Greetz. Jos