Hi All, not specifically a MSFS question but with night flights now happening in career mode, is there an easy way to tell if a destination runway will be lit? I might have just answered my own question as I just checked on LittleNavMap and this does say if the runways are lit, so I’ll be checking …

In certain GPS units you could program in the end of the runway as a waypoint, and then set the OBS to the runway heading as a “basic” localizer. You just won’t have a glideslope

Strangely for this mission (it was the same when i repeated it today in daylight) the runway wasn’t included in the waypoints. It got to the last waypoint then went to missed approach I had to add the runway as a manual waypoint. I did try flying it using VNAV but it was way too dicey. Even in dayli…

Ah yes, these infamous blue boxes (which I’m glad to switch off first thing in cockpit). Maybe we should call them “Blue Boxes of Death” (BBOD) :rofl:

I’d actually forgotten about them but then when I turned them on last night I thought ‘result’ I can see where the runway is now! When I tried it was obvious I was going into the trees so had to abort. I set up the hold on the final waypoint (I had about hour to kill before sunrise) and when I was r…

In the US, lighting info for public and military can be gleaned from the chart supplement (also known as the airport/facility directory). As said above, terminal procedures publications will also have it. These can be considered very accurate for public airports and especially so for part 139 (com…

Flight Planner Nice but you won’t have all worldwide airports…

At the end of the day, if I was flying a real aircraft I’d take the time to investigate this kind of thing properly but with the sim you just pick a mission and head off. I do try and put some effort in to make sure I’m flying safely but I wasn’t really prepared for night flights so I thought it wor…

Now that the missions in career mode are in real time, I need to know if an airport where I want to land has runway lighting or not. But I can’t find that information before selecting a mission or not, and I’ve already reached more than one that is dark :frowning:

Yeah, if I’m being honest, I’ve observed plenty of reason to do almost a full preflight planning session to ensure that the mission can be completed, especially with regard to the mission-time conditions. Weather, performance, runway and airport information. The more tight the margins or extreme the…

They’re in real time? They’re no longer attached to the time listed in the plan? As of yesterday, I hadn’t seen that.

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Not at this time. There is a wishlist thread for it.