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LIGHTING

The 727 probably provides more lighting options than any other aircraft. You'll find a myriad of light switches on the first overhead panel. There is also one more light switch on the second radio stack near the rudder trim knob. Keep in mind that some of the light switches will not actually light up anything within FS.
EXTERIOR LIGHTING

The light panel is opened with the light bulb button just below the clock. The panel will then appear at the top of the window. If you are in an external view, you can open up the light panel in windowed mode with Shft-5.
The above is the external lighting section of the overall lighting panel. Starting from the left is your inboard and outboard landing lights. FS does not allow for more than one type of landing light, so they all get turned on at once. Moving to the right are runway turnoff lights. These lights shine off to the side of the aircraft to illuminate the runway turnoffs. MSFS does not include runway turnoff lights, so these switches do nothing. The switch marked Navigation turns on the red and green position lights on the wing. The Beacon switch turns on both your anti-collision and your strobe lights. And the last two switches illuminate your wing and wheel wells during ground maintenance. These switches, like the runway turnoff lights, move but do not do anything.
There is no taxi light in this particular configuration. You can use your inboard landing lights.
INTERIOR LIGHTING

Interior lighting is located on the same panel as the exterior lighting. There's quite a few switches and knobs available. Most on this panel actually do something, but some don't.
Starting from the top left, the first knob is your map light. This puts a light in your lap, but of course does nothing within FS.
The next two knobs control your instrument back lighting. They work in unison on this panel for performance reasons; turning one on also turns the other on. Normally you would turn your flight and engine instrument lights on separately.
The Forward Background knob turns on the incandescent background lighting.
The Fwd Panel Fluorescent toggle switch turns on the fluorescent flood light. This is handy for pre or post flight, but you wouldn't fly with these on.
The knob labeled Overhead Panel turns on the legend lighting for both overhead panels.
Next are two knobs for the center control stand. These lights are physically located inside the overhead panel. They shine through narrow slits down onto the radios and throttle quadrant. You have your choice between red lighting and white lighting.
The Light Override switch overrides all other light switches and makes the fluorescent lights come on.
Next to that is the Right Fwd & Side Panel switch, which lights up the first officer's flight instruments.
And the last one on this row is the first officer's map light.
Not illustrated above but next to the landing lights is the standby compass light. Also not illustrated is the red dome light knob. The red dome light does not put out much light, so you will not see your panel light up red.
CENTER CONSOLE AND RADIO STACK LIGHTING

Your center console and radio lights get turned on with the knob located on the second radio stack next to the rudder trim knob. This lights up the lettering and radio displays only. For flood lighting, you'll have to turn on either the red or white control stand lighting located on the lighting overhead panel.
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