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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 1:19 pm 
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What wonderful flightsim experience, delightfully immersive and totally addictive....... but, can anyone tell how I can get the panel lights to work ?...... I'm restricted to daylight flying only. It's fully updated a/c and accusim.
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 26, 2012 8:18 pm 
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Mike,

Down the bottom of the panel are two "flood light" rotary switches (well, pots, actually). Note that the Spitfire does not have "panel lights" and in real life was totally unsuitable for night flying. It was used as such early on but phased out as rapidly as possible. The glow from the merlin exhausts was fatal to night vision and the lack of forward vision made night-landings a night-mare.

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PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 2:05 am 
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Thank you darryl for your reply, yes, I'm familiar with the cockpit switches, but they did not operate any lighting or illumination....... however I have completely reinstalled the aircraft and accusim , plus all the updates, and all problems are solved, strange, probably some stray electrode putting a spanner in the works?.

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Mike


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PostPosted: Tue Mar 27, 2012 3:33 am 
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Good to hear it's fixed. There are a few strange little things from time to time on installs. Re-install usually fixes them.

As to stray spanners... guenseli probably did your last 100 hourly...he is secretly working for zee Germans :lol:

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 01, 2012 3:15 am 
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Further info, I fly the K5054 alot....nostagic so and so!, but I always load a default FSX a/c first, then the Spit, coldstart,.....
consistently the instrument lights do not work, change to another Spit, hey presto they work, back to K5054... They work.
weird.

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