I know heat lightning, this ain’t it. Here is actual footage from that very flight, recorded on July 16 2022. Look how sparse these clouds are! No way there would be lightning with clouds like that in the real world. Also notice how the lightning is inside the cockpit too. No, this wasn’t an electrical failure either. 
Currently (11:18 am cdt) setting on the tarmac at KDCA and watching lightning from a thunderstorm just to my west.
Doesnt matter how many times you see it, or how many post videos. They wont believe it. 
It’s not a matter of believing. It’s a matter of experiencing. It’s great that others see lightning and I believe that they do.
Doesn’t change the fact that I (and many others) didn’t see a single lightning bolt in almost two years. But I guess no matter how many times we say it, they won’t believe us either.
OH we believe you. I just dont know how you are looking for them.
Find a storm in SE Asia. Plenty there daily. I’ve seen it numerous times.
Plenty of lightning.
Airport: VOHS (Rajiv Gandhi International)
Runway 09R
Date: 14.June.2024
Local time: around 4.00 to 4.30 PM (IST)
I have a video 270 MB. When I find a way to share this I will post the link.
I definitely believe you. There are parts of the world that no matter how bad the storms, you likely won’t see it(I rarely, if ever, see it over the continental US, Canada, or Europe). There are others where it’s there daily. The South Pacific and Indian Oceans have it almost daily. You’ll also see it in the Caribbean and off the coast of SE USA in bad storms. I’d bet it’s in this mess off Cuba/Mexico. I’d look but I’m in the air for the next 6 hours on a flight.
I would really like to see a lightning in a snapshot taken during a flight in this sim. I haven’t seen one in almost 2 years…
Let me see what I can do. It’s stopped on my flight for now. I’m sure I’ll see it again. Will post when it starts up again.
Right now at MYXZ
Lots over South Florida yesterday too. The lightning has always been there. It’s just a lot less common than it used to be. Set departure points on the World Map so the Live Weather Icon updates. If you click around in the tropics where the World Map is cloudy, you’ll see some storms.
Great shot!! So it works…Lucky you!! I’ll chase them on worldmap too.Thanks for the tip.
Hang around the areas I mentioned and you’ll surely see it. Good luck.
Here is the link for the Video: https://youtu.be/dHVxamt9EeM
Here is a discussion over at the Forums of Hifi (Devs of Active Sky) about implementing CBs in MSFS. The dev states the issue for the absence is a limitation in cloud height MSFS is depicting, which is about half of the value given. It has appearently been done for performance reasons.
I’ve just completed a long-haul from Madrid to San Pedro in Belize with live weather on. And as I was crossing Cuba, the sky was lighting up in the distance until it got nearer so I quickly tried my best to capture it by spamming the F12 key.
I’d never seen anything like it and was seriously gobsmacked by the effects. The way the clouds lit up and the reflections on the underside of the aircraft were impressive enough but on one occasion the lightning bolt was so close it took a second or two to fully disappear.
I was impressed, to say the least!
Looks like thunders aren’t present in FS.
Last night there was sewere thunderstorm near LQTZ, west from LQTZ to be more precise. I loaded a flight at LQTZ, waited about 10 minutes, not a single lightning flashed.
That same thunderstorm passed near LQTZ and over my town. It was like in war zone, flashed and thunder all over the sky.
In FS it was very cloudy, but nothing else.
Today I’ve heard some thunder boooms,
exactly at time (look at that Topic about NAV data not on TBM but C172) I’ve tried check Kathmandu airport so after have sit on rwy, booom and sounds There was some thunderstorm away and pretty nice coverage at place. Lucky maaaaan
