Ok, here's the results of my quick investigation of external lights. The aircraft tested are: the Acceleration/Sludge F18, the FSXBA F18, the F14 and T45 (both Dino's)
Lights | F18 | F18BA | F14 | T45 |
Strobe | + | + | + | + |
Landing | + | + | + | + |
Taxi | - | + | + | + |
Beacon | + | + | - | + |
Nav | + | + | + | + |
Logo | - | - | + | + |
Wing | - | - | + | + |
Recognition | + | + | - | - |
As you can see, there's no uniformity in using the lights and various modelers use them differently.
For example, both F18s use strobe lights as formation lights, whereas both Dino's aircraft use logo lights for this purpose. Both F18s use nav and recognition lights simultaneously (bound to one cockpit switch). The FSXBA F18 toggles both landing and taxi lights when you toggle its landing light switch...
That being said I'll have to check ALL these 8 lights' state to make sure the pilot turned his lights off after a successful night trap.
Now to LSO comments. I guess that (S.LUIC) means "a little settle on lineup in close", not "slow on line up in close", which is something different