Actually, if you're approaching a runway from about 90 degrees, it's the taxiway lights that you can see -- the runway lights are invisible until you're right overhead.
Yes, it's a subtle effect and you may not notice it unless you are looking for it specifically, but all runway lighting in FlightGear is directional. In other words the lights are brightest when viewed along the direction they are pointing and dim out as you move perpendicular to them, and disappear when they are pointing the opposite direction.
This shows up most clearly in that you don't see the approach lighting of the opposite ends of the runways. And the perpendicular runways are *much* dimmer than the ones you are aligned with.
Several of us put in quite a bit of effort to work out the graphical tricks to make that happen. :-)
Regards,
Curt. -- Curtis Olson HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities curt 'at' me.umn.edu curt 'at' flightgear.org Minnesota http://www.flightgear.org/~curt http://www.flightgear.org
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