Great video! One of the first things I was ever taught at the airport was to watch out for that beacon. Our rules state that we normally can't approach an aircraft with a fuel truck if their beacon is on, even if the engines are obviously shut down. Also, for added realism, shut off your taxi lights as you turn toward the marshaller when parking. If those lights are pointed right at us, we can't see you well enough to guide you around any obstacles, or stop you on the appropriate line.
Step 1: "Let's get started" (starts engine with lights off) Step 2: "The beacon is the first light you turn on before the engine. Always, always, always have the beacon light on when the engine is running." (turns on beacon) ;) j/k though - another helpful video!
Other things about the taxi light---it's important to marshalling by ramp dudes. If you're starting up, you flash the taxi light to tell the ramp dude you're ready to start moving. If you're taxiing onto the ramp and a ramp dude is giving you signals saying where he wants you to park, blinking the light indicates you've seen and understand. And finally, when you're taxiing the last little bit up to the stop right in front of the ramp dude, PLEASE turn the taxi light off before you get the plane pointed directly at the ramp dude. Otherwise, you'll blind him. This can even happen in daylight with the new LED lights.
Edit: never mind, I found a separate video on A320 lights and apparently they're either extended and on, extended and off, or retracted and off, and there's relatively few instances where pilots extend them without turning them on. Original Q: In the A320, are the two different landing lights just the halfway and then full position of the switch? Like you flip it from "off" to middle "on" at 10k, then from middle to top "extended" on final?
So pretty much during the daytime your beacon light of course is always on but your strobe light comes on when you hit the runway until you exit the runway? And of course you're landing lights for takeoff and landing during a daytime but no other lights have to be on
Not really. For the Longitude, lighting names are a little different (in the real life aircraft), here goes: 1. Landing lights, recognition lights and pulse lights are on the same lighting fixtures (the 2 rows of 7 LEDs on either side of the belly). The landing lights button is obvious, it lights the LEDs to full brightness; Recognition lights button turns on the same lights but dimmed Pulse button flashes the left and right (full brightness) alternately (left, right, left, right). The landing lights take priority over the recognition and pulse lights, so, for example: if you have both landing lights and recognition buttons turned on, the landing lights (full brightness) will shine. Same with the pulse. They only work (alternate flash) so long as the landing light switches are off, otherwise the landing lights override the pulse. 2. Nav lights don't have a switch on the Longitude, they automatically turn on once either Batt 1 or Batt 2 is pushed on. Unlike most aircraft, there are no strobe lights on the wings of the Longitude (Asobo got this wrong), only the green on the right, red on the left nav lights, and two white nav lights on the top back of the vertical stabilizer. 3. the beacon and strobes are located on the same fixtures (one on the belly, the other on the top of the vertical stabilizer) and an extra (strobe only) on the top back of the vertical stabilizer, sandwiched between 2 white nav lights. Here's how they work. The beacons automatically turn on as soon as you start the APU, so, like the nav lights, they have no physical button or switch. Now, unlike most aircraft, the "ANTI-COLLISION" button on the Longitude turns on the strobes. So how does this work? When the beacons turn on, they (top and belly fixtures) flash red like so: red - nothing - red - nothing. But as soon as the anti-collision button is pushed, the "nothings" get replaced by white strobe, and it goes thus: red - white - red - white, and the strobe at the top back also flashes white simultaneously with the white portion of the red/white flash. So the LEDs on the belly and top vert stab are multi-color LEDs that can flash red and white. Well, that is real life, but in MSFS, they've assigned the "recognition" button to the nav lights, and the "pulse" button to the strobes, and finally the "anti-collision" button to the beacons, while putting strobes on the wings.
Complementary information. Angles of visible navigation lights: RED: from front to 110 degrees left). GREEN: from front to 110 degrees right. WHITE: from rear, 140 degrees. Total: 360 degrees.
2:30 Pretty sure this is all incorrect. Unlike a ship an aeroplane does not have masthead lights. The wingtip lights do not show aft of 20 degrees. The tail light does not show forward of 20 degrees of the beam. Not counting the rotating beacon: Coming towards you one should only see the red & green lights. Heading away one should only see the white tail light. Abeam one will see either a green or red light. One will not see a white (tail) and/or either wingtip lights.
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Great video! One of the first things I was ever taught at the airport was to watch out for that beacon. Our rules state that we normally can't approach an aircraft with a fuel truck if their beacon is on, even if the engines are obviously shut down. Also, for added realism, shut off your taxi lights as you turn toward the marshaller when parking. If those lights are pointed right at us, we can't see you well enough to guide you around any obstacles, or stop you on the appropriate line.
Step 1: "Let's get started" (starts engine with lights off)
Step 2: "The beacon is the first light you turn on before the engine. Always, always, always have the beacon light on when the engine is running." (turns on beacon)
;) j/k though - another helpful video!
Other things about the taxi light---it's important to marshalling by ramp dudes. If you're starting up, you flash the taxi light to tell the ramp dude you're ready to start moving. If you're taxiing onto the ramp and a ramp dude is giving you signals saying where he wants you to park, blinking the light indicates you've seen and understand. And finally, when you're taxiing the last little bit up to the stop right in front of the ramp dude, PLEASE turn the taxi light off before you get the plane pointed directly at the ramp dude. Otherwise, you'll blind him. This can even happen in daylight with the new LED lights.
Dude, I think you can literally read my mind. I was just searching all over youtube for something like this yesterday!
Nice informational video. However, why would you record this with weather set to clear daytime?
Thanks - another handy dandy tutorial
Edit: never mind, I found a separate video on A320 lights and apparently they're either extended and on, extended and off, or retracted and off, and there's relatively few instances where pilots extend them without turning them on.
Original Q:
In the A320, are the two different landing lights just the halfway and then full position of the switch? Like you flip it from "off" to middle "on" at 10k, then from middle to top "extended" on final?
Not sure why you did not put to nighttime... seems pretty legit while making a tutorial about lights
Great video. Can you please make one for Cessna G1000?
Great presentation. Thanks
You can use CTRL + 1 to CTRL + 0 for instrument views (the number keys on the top of the keyboard)
So pretty much during the daytime your beacon light of course is always on but your strobe light comes on when you hit the runway until you exit the runway? And of course you're landing lights for takeoff and landing during a daytime but no other lights have to be on
all switches up at all times.
got it
I have "recognition lights" on my checklist for the Citation Longitude. Is that the same as beacon lights?
Not really. For the Longitude, lighting names are a little different (in the real life aircraft), here goes:
1. Landing lights, recognition lights and pulse lights are on the same lighting fixtures (the 2 rows of 7 LEDs on either side of the belly).
The landing lights button is obvious, it lights the LEDs to full brightness;
Recognition lights button turns on the same lights but dimmed
Pulse button flashes the left and right (full brightness) alternately (left, right, left, right).
The landing lights take priority over the recognition and pulse lights, so, for example: if you have both landing lights and recognition buttons turned on, the landing lights (full brightness) will shine. Same with the pulse. They only work (alternate flash) so long as the landing light switches are off, otherwise the landing lights override the pulse.
2. Nav lights don't have a switch on the Longitude, they automatically turn on once either Batt 1 or Batt 2 is pushed on. Unlike most aircraft, there are no strobe lights on the wings of the Longitude (Asobo got this wrong), only the green on the right, red on the left nav lights, and two white nav lights on the top back of the vertical stabilizer.
3. the beacon and strobes are located on the same fixtures (one on the belly, the other on the top of the vertical stabilizer) and an extra (strobe only) on the top back of the vertical stabilizer, sandwiched between 2 white nav lights. Here's how they work. The beacons automatically turn on as soon as you start the APU, so, like the nav lights, they have no physical button or switch. Now, unlike most aircraft, the "ANTI-COLLISION" button on the Longitude turns on the strobes. So how does this work? When the beacons turn on, they (top and belly fixtures) flash red like so: red - nothing - red - nothing. But as soon as the anti-collision button is pushed, the "nothings" get replaced by white strobe, and it goes thus: red - white - red - white, and the strobe at the top back also flashes white simultaneously with the white portion of the red/white flash. So the LEDs on the belly and top vert stab are multi-color LEDs that can flash red and white.
Well, that is real life, but in MSFS, they've assigned the "recognition" button to the nav lights, and the "pulse" button to the strobes, and finally the "anti-collision" button to the beacons, while putting strobes on the wings.
Complementary information. Angles of visible navigation lights: RED: from front to 110 degrees left). GREEN: from front to 110 degrees right. WHITE: from rear, 140 degrees. Total: 360 degrees.
2:30 Pretty sure this is all incorrect. Unlike a ship an aeroplane does not have masthead lights.
The wingtip lights do not show aft of 20 degrees.
The tail light does not show forward of 20 degrees of the beam.
Not counting the rotating beacon:
Coming towards you one should only see the red & green lights.
Heading away one should only see the white tail light.
Abeam one will see either a green or red light.
One will not see a white (tail) and/or either wingtip lights.