PC-12 Aviator penalty for no landing lights in Career

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ISSUE DESCRIPTION

You get a penalised for not using landing lights as soon as you retract thr landing gear during night flights in career mode. I switched to night flight using zulu time.

Landing lights are switched on, ive checked multiple times.

If applicable, which aircraft is experiencing this issue:
PC-12

[PC Only] Did you remove all your community mods/add-ons? If yes, are you still experiencing the issue?
I have none.

FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

How often does this occur for you (Example: Just once, every time on sim load, intermittently)?
Every time during night flights. Take off and landing.

REPRODUCTION STEPS

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  1. Switch to night during a PC-12 mission
  2. Switch landing and Taxi lights on.
  3. Take off and retract gear.
  4. Receive Penalty
  5. Begin decent (during night) slow speed and extend flaps below 130kts
  6. Receive Penalty even though the landing and lights are on.

YOUR SETTINGS

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What peripherals are you using, if relevant:

[PC Only] Are you using Developer Mode or have you made any changes to it?
No

[PC, MSFS 2020 Only] Are you using DX11 or DX12?
Dx 12 in VR

[PC Only] What GPU (Graphics Card) do you use?
4070 ti super

[PC Only] What other relevant PC specs can you share?
32gb ram rizen 9 cpu and always fly in VR with a pimax crystal light.

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?

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I have all the licenses including the night flight license. Where are the missions for that? I’m level 182 and haven’t seen a single night flight yet.

You have to bind a button to Zulu time mate.
Go to controls, search 'Zulu" then bind a button to minutes and hours.
It sets the time to utc (I think)
Its a beautiful thing :heart_eyes:

Pls dont forget to vote for your own reports.

-edit:-
i will try it with my PC-12 tonight on XBox….

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Do you have the same issue if you follow the OP’s steps to reproduce it?
• Yes, although I am on the beta so night flights are standard.

Provide extra information to complete the original description of the issue:
• As soon as I retract the landing gear on take-off on a night flight (the landing lights are on the gear on the PC-12) I get a penalty for no landing lights.
On landing, I advise the destination airport of my position via the ATC panel and then get another penalty for not having my landing lights on. Only at this point does the mission steps tell me to lower the landing gear, which house my landing lights (which were switched on). So it’s all out of whack. Then to cap it off my co-pilot tells me ‘we forgot to retract the landing gear’ which is mad to say it’s been retracted for 4 hours and I’ve just lowered it.

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This sums it up, pretty stupid amateur error but knock me from an S to and A. I guess no more night flight missions in the PC-12 till this is fixed when???.

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