No airport lighting at destination in career

[lverc]

On my last mission, I had to land on airport with no airport lighting at all.

The mission was from RJOO to ZFEC using PC12. Departing at dusk and arriving at night, I never expected arriaval airport to be non precision and completely dark.

I’ve set up straight in fix for visual approach on MFD and barely made it, but it was quite frustrating. Thought the mission system has to be upgraded right away.

Is there anything I can do to know whether the airports for mission has lighting besides SID/STAR?

[SmotheryVase665]

Moved to User Support Hub as OP is requesting community assistance.

FYI, see this Wishlist topic:

Lights at runways in the night in career

Please could you guys add some form of lighting or indication to runways in career mode? When it gets dark during medium cargo missions it get super hard to land with no lights at all and it takes a bit of the fun away cause that is super unrealistic… Does not need to be much but at least a little bit, cause right now when landing you are solely depending on the instruments and it is super hard, especially when the runway is surrounded by super tall trees and stuff Edit; Or eventuall…

[TGAPMerlin]

You can check the airport in Navigraph (if you have a subscription) or on chartfox.org. Approach charts will give info about available lighting systems. As I can’t find ZFEC at all (even Google doesn’t know it ), changes are high there isn’t any light.

[PilotJennyD]

This is another current 2020 bug that has miraculously appeared in 2024
it was introduced sometime ago and has never been fixed . some airports when you arrive are totally dark although if you spawn there they have lovely lighting

[DementedCorn327]

See related msfs-2020 reports but seems can also happen in msfs-2024 :
Runway lights are off
Missing runway lights at large airports at night after long flights

[lverc]

Thank you for moving the thread, and letting me know about the related thread. So sad to see such a basic feature that has to be implemented in the game by its release date as a wish. Hoping the wish will come true soon

[lverc]

Now I’m feeling I better think to subscribe Navigraph, but you couldn’t find the airport eh LOL

Thanks for your suggestion though

[lverc]

OK, so this is not new…

I feel the game is still in alpha experiencing this kind of fault so many times.

[DocTwoEight]

I crashed my pc12 cuz of this on its thrid flight due to trees on my approach.

[Marcusdoc]

If career mode is assigning that as the destination runway (with no alternate airport - you know, reality), why would you have to go to Navigraph to see if Microsoft is flying you to your doom? That makes no sense. That’s like the game assigning you a cruising altitude of 30,000 ft in a Cessna 172. How about the game pulling their head out of their butt?

Also, does the game allow for CTAF-activated lighting?

[TEROTRACTOR]

A lot of people are talking like there just isn’t runway lighting at the airports. When I experience this, it’s that the lighting is off if you’re arriving there or have skipped to there, but when you fly out the lighting is great. This happens at international airports occasionally for me, and it completely ruins the flight.

It’s really tough to land with no lighting, even on a massive runway at big airports. For me this is experienced most during career VIP Charter flights with the Pilatus.

[nativesixs]

Cant fix this year after release ? Nice job SU3… fixing steam achievement but still no runway lights..