Pardon the necromancy, but I just recently had the free time to try out this procedure. Pretty Cool!!
@gza036:
Just wish this pit had instrument lights at night
I had luck just pressing <shift>+ <alt>+ c to toggle the interior flood lights from Off -> Low -> High
If you want the older integral red lighting you can drop this line into your 3dckpit.dat
floodlightcolormod 1.0 0.2 0.2;
iirc they went to an add-on green flood lighting when the pilots started using NVGs</alt></shift>