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Airfield approach and runway lights as spawns

mongoose

mongoose

SOH-CM-2025
I sort of have the feeling this is a question fro people like David and Loic!:wiggle: Ted did a lot of airfield approach and runway lights which I would like to only operate when a friendly aircraft is present, on the basis that they were only turned on prior to landing.

1. The requirement would be not only for approaching aircraft wanting to land, but also on takeoff. Could the latter also be modeled as a spawn?

2. I envisage removing the lights from the appropriate airbase facility and making their own facility which would be located at the same coordinates as the airbase.

3. The lights facility would then be made as a spawn which would only activate with a friendly aircraft upon it's take off or landing approach.

I'm not sure if this is possible or how to set it up exactly, although I remember I tried unsuccessfully a while back.

I attach the lights stripped out of NJG_airbase-dual_2.xml for coordinates Lat="N51*22'11.5699"" Lon="E6*12'44.0399"" Alt="457.19" angled at 80° if anyone wants to have a go.

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<Routes>
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