New feature: Pilot-Controlled Lighting (PCL)

[fsaerodata]

Pilot-Controlled Lighting (PCL) functionality has been added to the FSAerodata Navigation database.

A total of 4,000 airports are included, most of them located in North America, Australia, Scandinavia, and France. As with the rest of the FSAerodata navigation database, they keep regularly updated following the AIRAC cycles.

The system allows adjusting the lighting intensity to low, medium and high intensity, by pressing the mic key three, five, or seven times respectively. The lighting stays for 15 minutes following the activation.

Example of the system working:
https://my.hidrive.com/lnk/pSigim4C

How it works:

First of all, enable PCL in the options menu. To activate them on a PCL-enabled airport, tune to the airport’s PCL Unicom frequency and press the Transmit Voice key (by default Caps Lock / BLOQ MAYUS) a number of pulses within a five-second period:
- Three pulses: Low-intensity lights are activated,
- Five pulses: Medium intensity lights are activated,
- Seven pulses: High-intensity lights are activated.
The lighting is deactivated after 15 minutes.
This function is only available on Prepar3D v4 and higher.

A list of all PCL-enabled airport and its frequency is available in the Docs folder at the FSAerodata Files directory.

[ftnet305]

Hi, I am very happy to see this long awaited feature. Bought a new one year license right after reading this post. Could not get it to work at first, but it was easy.... just do the same as always and enable the new AIRAC. When P3D starts it will ask to activate the addon fsaerodata.
Important: Wait the 5 seconds before making a new light request and use the Capslock key. For whatever reason it will not work with my normal push to talk button on my yoke, but I will find out. Cool feature!

[bthiago]

Wow. What an amazing job. Congrats

[mattdee]

"A list of all PCL-enabled airport and its frequency is available in the Docs folder at the FSAerodata Files directory." Where can I locate this Docs folder because I cannot find it anywhere? Also when loading P3D V5 I' haven't been asked to activate fsAerodata, so I can't be sure it's in fact loaded. fsAerodata does not appear in the in game addons menu

[fsaerodata]

Hello:
The list is available on following folder: [your documents folder]\fsAerodata Files\Navigation Data\Docs

fsAerodata is activated using the config tool; afterwards you may start your flightsim and check the status on menu World-FSAerodata.
Please check the User's manual for instructions how to activate the database.

Remember that the PCL function is not activated by default; please go to the options menu and tick the option, before enabling the database.

Any further help, let me know.

[mattdee]

Hi Jose,

Many thanks as I now have it sorted, the PCL is something I have been wanting for such a long time. Great work

regards

[hatchettc182]

can some one post a screen shoot of their settings xml file using p3d v5. i think the installer is corrupted, i also have downloaded the installer 3 times to be sure. i cannot not get pcl to stay ticked and noticed in the settings pcl is showing false as well as simulator showing p3d_3 instead of p3d_5. thaks