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This year's Evergy Plaza Lighting Ceremony kicks off at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving, Nov. 23. KC-based rapper, Tech N9ne, will flip the switch, followed by a fireworks display. Attendees can expect to enjoy performances by Quixotic and local Celtic-rock band, The Elders.
What started with a single strand of Christmas lights strung over a store entrance in 1925 has become a living legend as the most spectacular holiday lighting display in the nation. The first Plaza Lighting Ceremony took place in 1930.
Does anyone else have problems seeing the right PDI lights when refueling--the lights that direct you forward or aft? I can't see them--at all. I'm color blind so maybe that is part of the problem, but I can't see the damn things at all and really wish I could.
As a real world KC-135 receiver instructor, they are difficult to see in real life as well. Receivers always ask for them to be turned up during the day when they are already at max brightness. They were supposed to be replaced with LEDs several years ago, but the program got canceled during sequestration. In DCS, they aren't modeled correctly anyway (green when one should be yellow, one light change per foot of movement, etc...). If you consult the ATP 3.3.4.2, a publicly available document, you can see how it really works/looks. If you play a certain other f-16 sim, that is accurate.
Edit: I have to call myself out here. I got out my copy of the SRD and apparently I'm too used to flying against KC-10s. 135s do not have yellow PDLs, while 10s do. I guess that shows how difficult they are to see/how long it's been since I had to do that mission. So, DCS is correct on the color, but not how the lights change, while said other sim has the correct light changes, but not the correct color.
Well thanks for all the replies guys. Good to know it's not just my color-blind self. Eagle Dynamics does an amazing job of chasing accuracy, but this is one area where I would welcome it not being accurate.
Hi Flappie, I've attached a couple of screenshots. I can make out the left side director light pretty easily, but the right is (for me) near impossible to make out. I'm flying on a larger size monitor (49") and I'm not sure if that matters, but even zoomed in (second shot) I can't see them. I've been on a 32" before and couldn't see them then either.
Thanks Flappie--the standard DCS set for themselves is realism and to be as close to RL as possible, so it is what it is. Chain_1 mentioned above that receivers are always asking to have them turned up even when they're already set as bright as they can be. Anyway, appreciate you looking at it and all your work!
@FlappieYour top picture is from the KC-46 Dumpster Fire, that's why it looks nice and visible and clean. On the 135, the pdl housings were black at one point, but now they're a bit faded. If you look in the US National SRD, which is publicly available, page 4-17, you can see the visual references for the contact position. Note the faded appearance of the PDL housings.
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