Carenado CT182T Skylane G1000 blackout after dusk

The airplane turn off displays after dusk - its related to sun position (time). I noticed that the knob of brightness of PFD change the moment to turn off panels (if brighter than later PFD is going dark).

For now the plane is unplayable in night conditions.

I’m playing on Xbox.

Sorry for poor english.

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I wish I knew this before I purchased it today. I’m glad it’s not just me tho.

I just found that if you into the PFD settings and set the brightness to manual (it will be on auto for PFD and MFD) you can set it as low as 52%. If you try to set it lower than 52% it just goes black. I am assuming that “auto” is trying to set the brightness to some value below 52% after sunset, and that is triggering it to go black. So just have it set to manual for yourself and choose 52% or higher. This is quite bright for night flight, but it’s better than losing it entirely.

In short:
[PFD Opt] → [Menu] → PFD/MFD Display: change Auto to Man for both → Choose 52% or greater → [Menu] again to close

Both cockpit and exterior lighting is currently messed up on most (all?) planes. It seems to have daytime and nighttime reversed.