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Runway Light inconsistent

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SeriousFox

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Hello,

I'm getting the different shaped threshold lights for the runways.

Is there a way to fix this?? It looks ugly at night.

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You are lucky to be getting any lights at all !!!

I am thinking particularly Taxiway lighting.

I seem to recall form FSX (been some time ago now), that most of the airport I flew into at night had an abundance of BRIGHT, Blue. & green center line, taxiway lights.

It seem that since then, many of those light have blown bulbs ? and there is no budget to replace them. ?
Either that, or ASOBO did not have the budget to put them in in the 1st place ??

Seriously, in RL, visit any medium to large airport at night, and the runway & taxiways are lit up like a Christmas tree. Amazing sight.

In MSFS, it's as if EVERYONE, including you, the pilot, are wearing those "Regulation Issued" Sun Glasses that all the ground crew seem to be wearing these days, even at night !!

And yes, whats with every airport, even the very small ones, where it never snows, having the same runway side light, up on 2 ft posts ?
Not to mention the occasional white strobe light, placed randomly on some runways, at very questionable positions ...
 
Not only are the runway light inconsistent, I am totally confused in MSFS, when I land and ATC tell me to taxi on Taxiways I do not see on my "Current" Chart.

OK, so MSFS is out of date .. It is what it is, but is there any easy solution to this. ?

I assume updating all the Airport is a massive, never ending task, so how about looking at it from another direction.

Nav data seems to be OK, and I believe it can be update relatively easily, although I do not know how ...

But once on the ground --

Is there any simple way to DUMP/Print a MSFS Airport diagram that at least shows named taxiways, as they are in MSFS ?

Currently, only the AI Pilot seems to know where these outdated or incorrect taxi ways are, so I am forced to let him taxi the aircraft, and he is Totally useless at it !!!
 
Geoff_D said:
Not only are the runway light inconsistent, I am totally confused in MSFS, when I land and ATC tell me to taxi on Taxiways I do not see on my "Current" Chart.
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This is because almost all the default airports were created just from aerial photos, there was no access to the taxiway names or designators so they had to make it up.



There's currently no way of reverse-engineering the airport bgls, but people much cleverer than me are working on it so hopefully we'll get it soon.
It's a priority, as at the moment there's no way to change an airport, you have to remove the whole thing and recreate it from scratch - once we can decompile the airports someone can write an application to grab the existing information, change it, and export it back to the sim.
 
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