Night too dark

[ZombieHunter]

Nighttime at airports and in the cockpit is too dark. And the Garmin doesn't auto adjust for night mode. Literally can't see anything including heading, etc. b/c the G1000 is too bright. Landing lights are not bright enough and runway lighting is extremely poor.

[Neo King Arthur]

Turn on your flashlight.

[ZombieHunter]

Didn't do anything. And that is stupid. Real aircraft are not that dark at night in the cockpit. This is where games screw night time up. Your eyes actually adjust to any light they receive and you can see fairly well. You are never in a no light situation or pitch black night unless you are in a cave underground where there is literally no light. Your eyes adjust so that you can see decently at night.

[opjose]

I find the night time exterior scenery too bright if anything.

The cockpit has no lights on by default, until you turn them on.

[svennoj]

The cockpit has a flood light to help see the switches, it is too dark indeed. The landing light is useless and the ground is pure black in airports without lights (or with, landing strip is still pure black)

[Manwith Noname]

Eat more carrots.

[Freeping]

I agree, I have done limited nighttime flights, but the airports I have tried did not have any sort of lamp posts. Cockpit lighting is fine with floodlights but the parking areas were pitch black

[TargetLost]

On one Airport the lights for the runway were missing or switched off so I landed on the Taxiway because that one was lit/visible. Once landed I tried to find the runway. I couldn't see it till I was on the rwy itself.

I have no reference to the real thing from a cockpit but I too believe that MSFS is posssible makeing the dark a bit too dark especially when the moon is up and clear sky you should see more. If it is cloudy then ok. The landing lights could be a bit stronger and going further,
No issue with the cockpit. The A320 has tons of instruments illumination and cockpit light switches. (Though a smooth soft one is missing,)

[Baba Bomba]

Yup, much TOO DARK!

[Northern Aurora]

Forget the carrots, beef liver.

[Rever]

This is funny. It is actually dark in some places, unless the moon is out. I can always tell when a city person moves out to the neighborhood, because the light their houses up like they are having a party outside. This usually lasts up to a year, then I guess they realize it's dumb just to leave lights on lighting up the woods.

[nko][Bobobski]

The only darkness that annoys me is the one with the guy who sings with a really high pitched voice.

[ZombieHunter]

Originally posted by Rever:

This is funny. It is actually dark in some places, unless the moon is out. I can always tell when a city person moves out to the neighborhood, because the light their houses up like they are having a party outside. This usually lasts up to a year, then I guess they realize it's dumb just to leave lights on lighting up the woods.

This is physically and scientifically 100% impossible. Your eyes will pick up on any light there is. No night time is completely pitch black. Nowhere on Earth. Only in a cave where no light enters.

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-blogs/why-we-can-see-in-the-dark/

[Rever]

Originally posted by ZombieHunter:

Originally posted by Rever:

This is funny. It is actually dark in some places, unless the moon is out. I can always tell when a city person moves out to the neighborhood, because the light their houses up like they are having a party outside. This usually lasts up to a year, then I guess they realize it's dumb just to leave lights on lighting up the woods.

This is physically and scientifically 100% impossible. Your eyes will pick up on any light there is. No night time is completely pitch black. Nowhere on Earth. Only in a cave where no light enters.

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-blogs/why-we-can-see-in-the-dark/

What? I guess you have the eyes of a cat, or bat sonar, or something, because for a normal human like myself, it definitely gets dark enough outside at night that I need a flash light. But good for you.

[Harmonica]

It's pitch black out in the country when the moon isn't out. If there's any light at all, you're close enough to a city or a major road and it's casting light into the sky and it's coming back off the clouds. Aside from that in the middle of winter you're not going to be seeing anything. We're don't have the eyes of cats or owls, unfortunately.

If anything the game is generous with the amount of light that it offers in most places. Though I really love the ambient lighting. But you really feel it when it's overcast and you've stayed out too late on a VFR trip. Lighting up the panel is brutal because you're blinded to outside. Had a few hairy landings where I only made it down because of the blessed runway lights.

Also the default bindings for lights don't work very well because they seem to turn each other off. I had to rebind a lot of them to work properly (I use various combinations of L, shift+L for flashlight, L for panel etc, and removed the bindings for exterior lights). Flashlight is a game-changer!

[Rinky]

Originally posted by ZombieHunter:

Originally posted by Rever:

This is funny. It is actually dark in some places, unless the moon is out. I can always tell when a city person moves out to the neighborhood, because the light their houses up like they are having a party outside. This usually lasts up to a year, then I guess they realize it's dumb just to leave lights on lighting up the woods.

This is physically and scientifically 100% impossible. Your eyes will pick up on any light there is. No night time is completely pitch black. Nowhere on Earth. Only in a cave where no light enters.

https://skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-blogs/why-we-can-see-in-the-dark/

thats just BS