When coming in to land at any runway at Schipol or other airports runway lights are not visible at night time.
Only the approach lights are visible, the runway is very hard to see so it has taken some practice to just know where the aiming point is. The only visible light on the runway is the turnoff lights. No PAPIs, thresholds, centreline, edge lights are visible whatsoever. Has anyone else had this issue or could possible help find a workaround?
Got to admit… I’m kind of excited to hear this. Runways are WAY harder to see IRL than in sim. I’m not in a spot to fly right now, but I’ll try a “night flight” in the morning and report back.
I’ve obviously started direct on the runway, and not come in on an approach, just wondering if you start on the runway does it work? (I’m on Runway 24).
The problem isn’t at departure. It’s after flying for a few hours and finding the arrival runway only has the approach lighting. With the runway edge, centre lights and PAPI unlit.
You definitely need to plan with world map and save pln. Then do a fresh restart from the wall socket then load pln and clear rolling cache. Minimise use of the flight tablet and not use the moving map function.
Apologies for the late reply, I have now got a screenshot of a high quality representation of the issue.
I am on an ILS for Runway 22 at EHAM. The weather was live and we had high rain intensity but visibility was acceptable.
The first image shows the zoomed in when we are about 7/8nm out from the runway. At this point this is probably a realistic representation of what we can expect to see for runway lights
The picture below shows 180’ which does not represent realistic visibility of lights on the runway and is a clear representation of the issue I have experienced
I understand that some have reported dim lights, but this literally contains no lights apart from approach lights, I’ve not seen this fully replicated anywhere else for a considerable period of time.
Is there a possible solution I can try as nothing has worked so far
