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Is there a way to implement amber runway lights at the end of runways? Right now all the runway edge lights are white all the way. To make the runway lights realistic the lights needs to be created manually which is a tedious job. You should be able to select the distance with white lights, and spacing between them and then the distance/spacing with amber/yellow lights in the scenery editor.
Hello @artogsta
To activate the amber/yellow light at the end of a runway you need to activate "Precision Marking" under the "Marking" section of your runway, here's an example of the same runway with and without this option :
The distance covered by yellow light can't be changed because it's set according to the FAA reglementation :
As of why those lights need the "Precision marking" to be active, it's from a section of the code inherited from FSX so I don't have more explanation on it.
Best regards,
Yohan
Thanks for the clarification.
But is that a very good solution? In other parts of the world they don't necessarily follow the FAA standard. When selecting this option the markings are fixed which is a problem especially for the Aiming Point marking. The distance for the aiming point marking from the THR is different from airport to airport depending on many things. Papi Angle, rwy profile etc.
So in the end I end up making the runway markings and position the runway lights by hand which does take quite some time.
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