The operator reports consistently, across two sessions, that the MFD artifacts
began the night the Comm pilot list was enabled (#43) and were never seen before.
Four static theories of mine died -- plane masks (all 7 primitives invert
correctly), L4GraphicLamp (never instantiated, dead code), the sec-port lamps
(wrong plane AND wrong colour, operator confirmed on sight from the decoded art),
vertBar/VertTwoPartBar (clamps every value, sets its cursor per draw). And no
rig reproduces it: not 2 pilots, not 5 pilots on last night's exact roster, not
autofire + repeated valve moves.
So stop theorising and make the field observation decidable: BT_NO_PILOTLIST=1
makes PilotList::Execute draw nothing, everything else untouched.
artifacts gone with it / present without => confirmed, and it is the workaround
artifacts either way => not the pilot list
Diagnostic only, default OFF.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_0166KTsC7ADm7VXEi1HF1jNg
