A night view of Washington National airport (DCA) from several thousand feet; this is fairly realistic looking with rather subdued airport lighting being difficult to discern from above but readily visible laterally.
For those times when you are flying in the pitch black areas of the country out west in the middle of the desert without any ambient light, you can use the “night vision” view. The effect doesn’t translate as well in a screenshot, but the fuzzy green view in motion is very well done. Here is a screenshot of the same scene with and without night vision.
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Watching military aircraft fly-by the tower using the night vision view is a bit spooky.