Adding a Green & White Flashing Tower Beacon

Adding a tower beacon just takes 4 steps:

1) save the beacon template file below into your \scenery\places\(airport) folder where the (airport).tsc file is located and name it "(airport)-beacon.toc"

2) edit the first line to match your airport / file name you just saved

3) copy your airport tower lonlat coordinates from your airport tsc file and paste them into the position lines on rows 6 & 13 of the new file

NOTE - you may have to adjust the height of the 2 lights if your tower is taller than 15 meters (increase the "15" after the lonlat numbers)

4) add a new toc section to the end of your airport's tsc file and reference your new beacon.toc file

KDFW-beacon.txt

I've tweaked the flashing tower beacon toc file to increase the flashing diameter so you can see it at a greater distance from each airport and I raised the default height to 35 meters as it's easier to experiment with the height if you start with it too high and then tweak it down.

TIP - if you have 2 airports close to each other and you don't want both beacons flashing in sync, adjust the highlighted delay values below by equal amounts. The 2 beacons currently each flash about once every 4 seconds but with delay values of 0 & 3, the green light flashes about 2 seconds after the white light. If you set the 2nd airport beacon to delays of 1 & 4, it will flash white after the first airport beacon flashes white.

With big cities, the flashing beacons make it easier to locate the airports among all the city lights.

You're welcome Todd! I was VR flying last night in the Dallas area and could see the flashing beacons from 3 different airports - definitely helps with spotting airports at night.