Lights Problems and General Concern

alin_cristinel · June 9, 2025 at 11:45 PM

I don’t know what happened or why so many people have been complaining about the lights (and I’m only talking about aircraft now), but after the last update, everything has started to go down. The beacon and strobe lights on the A350 no longer have the same visibility and reflection quality as before. After the new update, the beacon lights are no longer reflect off the winglet at all on the A350, and on the A320 only very slightly, even though they should be clearly visible.

Also, the flash rate of the strobes and beacon lights on the A320 family is very fast. Yes, it is realistic, but it’s too fast, it just needs to be slowed down by a few milliseconds, not much. Likewise, during the daytime, there is no visible reflection anymore. I’m not crazy to say the lights should reflect in broad daylight, but at least a little where there’s shade under the engine, it used to show before, but not anymore.

Also, on every single aircraft, the “direct to” function doesn’t work at all. If we want to make a shortcut, we simply can’t. Please fix these issues and bring things back to how they were.

As for the new update, yes, we have new aircraft, and thank you for that, but please, and I say this for the whole community, not just the developers: stop asking for new planes! Let’s focus and hope for the basics. real-time, real-time weather maybe, proper ground services, and the ability to adjust fuel and cargo on the aircraft. These are the priorities.
Let’s stop requesting and asking about new aircraft and instead ask for things that improve the core experience and realism of the simulator. Thank you.

Jet-Pack (IPACS) · June 10, 2025 at 8:16 AM Official Post

What device do you have?

We've added optimizations to reduce the impact of real time lights to improve performance. This includes disabling them during daylight, which improves FPS significantly.

A320 lights off by a only a few milliseconds, close enough then, ok, we'll keep it as is.

Direct to has not been implemented yet.

shdkd · June 10, 2025 at 9:24 AM

Quote from alin_cristinel

I don’t know what happened or why so many people have been complaining about the lights (and I’m only talking about aircraft now), but after the last update, everything has started to go down. The beacon and strobe lights on the A350 no longer have the same visibility and reflection quality as before. After the new update, the beacon lights are no longer reflect off the winglet at all on the A350, and on the A320 only very slightly, even though they should be clearly visible.
Also, the flash rate of the strobes and beacon lights on the A320 family is very fast. Yes, it is realistic, but it’s too fast, it just needs to be slowed down by a few milliseconds, not much. Likewise, during the daytime, there is no visible reflection anymore. I’m not crazy to say the lights should reflect in broad daylight, but at least a little where there’s shade under the engine, it used to show before, but not anymore.

Also, on every single aircraft, the “direct to” function doesn’t work at all. If we want to make a shortcut, we simply can’t. Please fix these issues and bring things back to how they were.
As for the new update, yes, we have new aircraft, and thank you for that, but please, and I say this for the whole community, not just the developers: stop asking for new planes! Let’s focus and hope for the basics. real-time, real-time weather maybe, proper ground services, and the ability to adjust fuel and cargo on the aircraft. These are the priorities.
Let’s stop requesting and asking about new aircraft and instead ask for things that improve the core experience and realism of the simulator. Thank you.

alin_cristinel Have you noticed how the external fuselage looks unnaturally bright during night flights? This unreal effect loses the immersion of night flight. In reality, most of it should appear darker since there's limited light at night, except near actual light sources.

aerofly fs global at night：

Aerofly fs 4 at night：

alin_cristinel · June 10, 2025 at 2:32 PM

Quote from Jet-Pack (IPACS)

What device do you have?
We've added optimizations to reduce the impact of real time lights to improve performance. This includes disabling them during daylight, which improves FPS significantly.
A320 lights off by a only a few milliseconds, close enough then, ok, we'll keep it as is.
Direct to has not been implemented yet.

iPhone 15 Pro Max, at least bring back the old reflection of beacon lights on winglets on A350 the way it was in the beginning. It was perfectly realistic.