Altimeter and night lighting

[ericnelson7]

In the analog cockpit, try setting white floodlight to maximum at night, then turn individual instrument lighting on to one click.  The altimeter dial reflection changes.  Also the canopy bow floodlight housing glows.

I'd suggest the red side console lighting is too bright/reflective.

Landing light air-glow is too intense, whiting out the scene.  A wide cone of light is welcome, but the effect shouldn't reflect in air to this extent unless it's pouring rain or snow.

The USAF manual seems to say the trim tab telltale lights for elevator and ailerons should glow while the trim switch is operated, but they only seem to glow once extreme limit positions are reached.

 

[einherz]

can the air glow be connect to high humidity bug? some time we have clear weather but high humidity, and that can confuse systems, and probably light effect too?

[Eddie]

Hi there,

Can I ask one of you, or both, to provide a video/screenshot of the issue? We've tried to reproduce it and can't seem to get the same result you are referring to. Thank you!

[ericnelson7]

Note the altimeter appearance changes between the "landing light" and "taxi light" images; flood light is max in both images, and in the taxi image the individual instrument lights have been turned on one click -which causes the altimeter dial to change reflectance unlike the other dials.  Landing light airglow is far more pronounced than the taxi light, and in VR it makes it hard to see airport lights when flying night approaches due to such intense whiteout in front.  I've never flown the T-33 in 2D desktop mode, only in VR.

The red lighting knobs should produce a wider range of brightness, but probably should have a lower maximum level since all old incandescent bulbs that size struggled to produce much light at all!  I was a USAF avionics tech on the old C-141 Starlifter...

 

[ericnelson7]

In the back seat, the turn coordinator dial does what the altimeter in the front seat does...floodlight to max, one click on individual instrument lights, and the dial changes reflection unlike the others.  But the floodlight housing in the backseat does not glow like the front light housing does.  Also the lighting knobs in the back seat aren't in sync with the off-max positions, stopping before reaching off and turning beyond max.

 

[ericnelson7]

Something is definitely wrong when the landing light produces some air reflection glow even at noon...