Simviation Forum - Problem with taxi and landing lights

Jun 14^th, 2004 at 11:48pm

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I'm a bit new to this so bear with me.

GREAT SITE!!! I LOVE the selection of add-on aircraft. I just got done flying the Piper Arrow from Cherry Capitol to Escanaba.

The problem I am having (along with the Retractable Gear version of the Cessna Skylane), is that I have no lights showing up on the runway when in cockpit view (none at all for the Piper, and only in external views for the Cessna). ??? Both are GREAT planes, and if there is a way to fix it, I would like to know (Man! that Piper practically flew itself on takeoff with only 10 degrees of flaps...is that how the real-world plane controls?). There may not be a fix (it may have to do with how the author built the file)

If you can give me any suggestions, or point me to another thread...

THANKS!!! Grin

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Reply #1 - Jun 15^th, 2004 at 7:47pm

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Taxi and landing lights are part of the model for that plane
I am not sure if you can change them without redesigning the plane. I knew there is a section in each planes aircraft cfg file that describes the lights but not sure if this controls where you can see them from.
AS for the piper that is the ideal way that any plane is supposed to take off. If you have the flaps set and the trim set correctly then the plane will lift off at a certain speed with little or no effort on your part, Other than using the rudder to adjust for prop effect on propeller aircraft.

« Last Edit: Jun 16^th, 2004 at 1:27pm by garymbuska »

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Reply #2 - Jun 15^th, 2004 at 10:10pm

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About the lights...yeah, I was afraid of that.

The second part...well I know that is how planes are supposed to work, it's just that the Ciper seemed to do it better than the Cessna (the one that came with FS2004).

I ALWAYS set the trim to TO on the wheel, and flaps are at 10 degrees.

Too bad about the headlights, the dashboard off the Piper looks WAY nice.

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Reply #3 - Jun 16^th, 2004 at 5:06am

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with the cessna 172, in real life give it about half a mile of runway space and it will pull right up

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