Not sure if this portends anything for the future or not, but I found it interesting.
I was flying in southern Australia a couple days ago (don’t remember what airport I was going into. Small uncontrolled two-runway place. I’ll edit the identifier in later if I can find it again…not in the logbook, but that’s another story).
As I was approaching, I entered the code in the MFD page to look at runway options and frequencies.
Under freqs, it listed Unicom, no surprise, but under that was “123.0 activate runway lights”
The comm box never gave me any options to do anything when I tuned that freq, and may just be random info that got pulled in from the nav data base.
But I’m hoping it’s a placeholder for a capability we’ve asked for multiple times.
Regards
P.S. best I can tell from my hen scratch notes, the airport I that showed the note about lights on the MFD was YMTG I believe. I’ll double check when I get back in the sim.
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Oooh, nice once. I’ll have to have a look myself.
The lack of lights on runways that should have then is a fair pain in the neck.
More info about PCL: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot-controlled_lighting