Tyrion wrote on Jan 25^th, 2009 at 5:48pm:

The panel lights are a bunch of switches to the left of the pilots seat. they're really big, so you can't miss them... Clicking any one of them, turns all of them.

Which still doesn't really answer the original question but makes me assume that from now on folks, when you start the flight at night in a cold and dark cockpit make sure you are wearing Night Vision Goggles  ::)