[danimalhanke]

Most if not all american acft do not have backlit gauges. A red light is used to illuminate the dash panel. I don't know about european acft but US acft rarely have backlit gauges. The ingame cockpit illuminations are very inaccurate. The radioactive pointers, numbers and letters glow red not the ingame green. A proper night view of the cockpit would be a red tint to everything and the gauges glowing red. Is this something which could be modded? I'm no modder and I could be asking for something which can not be done. It would be nice to see though.

TY

[zulu64]

Agreed most panels were flood light with a dull red light, however the panels were also illuminated with UV lights. These UV lights helped fluoresce the luminous paint needles and instrument graduations.

Under UV light and night the Luminous effect was a cream with a slight tinge of green colour on all luminous paint marked items. In between the luminous graduations and on flat panel surfaces would be a dull red tinge. So imo the green we see is not that bad, toning down a bit would be a little more realistic

[danimalhanke]

I haven't done much with night flying since the mod, so i got one of the 109 flavors and surprisingly it was close. gauges still had a green, but the cockpit was tinted with a red "glow"
BTW as to UV, I find that hard to beleive because there more than the guages a pilots needs to see during night operations, trim controls, gear and flaps controls, and all the others things in a cockpit which can't be readily seen with out any illumination. BTW red is used exclusively so not to ruin one's night vision. rod and cones in the eyes etc etc.

[zulu64]

I have flown 3 aircraft that use the RED and UV Flood light combination

Here is an excerpt from the Flight manual of one of them.



And from the RAF pilots notes for the Boston IV (A20).. see item 67

[RAF_Magpie]

Moved - please post in the correct sections...

[stansdds]

I agree, the night lighting of the gauges is generally incorrect, at least for U.S. aircraft. It's not something I lose sleep over, but it is incorrect. Maybe one day it will be fixed.