DC-3 Beacon Lights

Before reporting it as a bug, I’d like input of DC-3 pilots about Beacon lights:
It looks like DC-3 has 2 beacon lights: 1 above and 1 below the fuselage as shown in below 2 first screenshots:

At night, I see a strong red reflection below the aircraft and above (not so strong) illuminating all parts of the fuselage, engines and tail :

The issue I am seeing is that I don’t see the source of those flashing lights (as I usually see on other airplanes of the sim and IRL), I am just seeing the red reflection on the aircraft parts and on the ground (since I am on the runway). Does anyone is experiencing the same issue ?

As far As I can remember, when I was working on DC3’s , the top light was on top of the fin the bottom one on the underside of the fuselage. Both were rotating types with 2 lamps in them. Because of this, there was always some red reflection on the ground when they were operating at night.
Now, with modernisation they have probably been replaced with flashing types & the top one relocated to the fuselage. Now whether what you are seeing is correct. I don’t know but think about it.

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