You are absolutely right - I noticed after looking at the cockpit “in daylight” that there are no instrumentation and/or cockpit lights whatsoever.
Doh?!
You can’t fly this beastie at night? Sure looks like it.
Another thing I discovered, (all my prior flying has been in the daytime), is that the cockpit instruments on the Cessna 172, (analog), are not backlit. The only source of instrumentation lighting is a panel light that shines on the front of them.
I am soooo used to instrumentation being backlit, but then again I’ve never built or serviced avionics for small GA aircraft either. The smallest aircraft I ever built instruments for was the Cessna Citation class of jets which had backlit, (edge-lit), lights. Everything else had acrylic face-plates and needles with illumination from behind, (and was for much larger aircraft!), except for certain military aircraft instruments that were edge-lit).