ISSUE DESCRIPTION
Description of the issue:
Beacon light not working. If the switch is set to BRT or DIM, the beacon light is not on.
FREQUENCY OF ISSUE
How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?
Always, at night.
REPRODUCTION STEPS
Please list clear steps you took in order to help our test team reproduce the same issue:
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Activate the battery at night.
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Set the beacon light switch to BRT or DIM.
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Observe: beacon light does not turn on.
YOUR SETTINGS
If the issue still occurs with no mods and add-ons, please continue to report your issue. If not, please move this post to the User Support Hub.
Reproduced by multiple people with different hardware — issue appears independent of the specific PC setup/peripherals.
MEDIA
It’s now been roughly three weeks since this was reported, and there’s still been no reply from the dev team. On its own this might seem minor, but taken together with the other open lighting reports (overhead panel, floodlight, instrument lighting, and the gyro/heading indicators that stay dark after sunset), the cockpit becomes genuinely difficult to operate once it’s dark outside. That’s not a small detail either, since the regions where the C-46 is still flown for real (Alaska, Northern Canada) are entering a stretch of the year with close to 24 hours of darkness — this is core operating conditions for the type, not an edge case.
On a related note: the MSFS2020 version of this aircraft has been part of MSFS2024 since launch. A dedicated overhaul was later announced to bring it up to current standards, yet the result introduced more issues than it fixed, with only a small handful of genuine additions (GPS, autopilot, etc.) to show for it. Given how rough the update turned out overall, I’d really appreciate it if this report specifically could get looked at and resolved soon.
Same issue here. Also nav light not working.
