FLC IN AN ERJ145 LANDS ON RWY 27 AT SAV WITHOUT HIRL ACTIVATED DURING A NIGHT OP.

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20 MINS OUT FROM SAV; ATIS INDICATED TWR CLOSED. MACON FSS HAD CURRENT WX AND ADVISORIES. CALLED MACON FSS FOR WX AND ADVISORIES. WX WAS RPTED AS CLR SKIES; VISIBILITY UNLIMITED; WIND CALM. NO OTHER ADVISORIES WERE GIVEN BY FSS. 4 HRS EARLIER; WE (SAME CREW AND ACFT) FLEW THE VISUAL APCH TO RWY 27 AT SAV; AND HAD NO REASON TO EXPECT ANYTHING BUT A VISUAL APCH TO RWY 27. WE SET UP NAVAIDS FOR A VISUAL APCH TO RWY 27. VOR RWY 27 APCH WAS BRIEFED; RMI WAS SET TO RWY 9 LOM. AS THE APCH WAS BRIEFED WE ACTIVATED THE PLT CTLED LIGHTING ON COM #2. SAV APCH REPEATEDLY ASKED IF WE HAD THE ARPT IN SIGHT. WE INFORMED THE CTLR WE HAD THE BEACON; HOWEVER; WE WOULD CALL THE ARPT IN SIGHT WHEN WE HAD A GOOD VISUAL. ABOUT 5 MI OUT WE MADE VISUAL CONTACT WITH THE VASI TO RWY 27. WE RPTED THE ARPT IN SIGHT AND WERE CLRED FOR THE VISUAL APCH; NO RWY SPECIFIED. WE GAVE LNDG ADVISORIES ON CTAF FOR RWY 27 3 TIMES; APPROX 10; 5; AND 2 MI AND ALSO ONCE CLR OF THE RWY. THE ARPT WAS WELL ILLUMINATED BY MOONLIGHT; TXWY LIGHTS; AND AN ADJACENT RAMP AREA TO RWY 27. THE RWY NUMBERS; CTRLINE MARKINGS AND TOUCHDOWN ZONE WERE EASILY IDENTIFIABLE. AFTER LNDG WE NOTICED JUST HOW DARK THE RWY WAS. THE RWY LIGHTS WERE OUT; ALL THE ADJACENT LIGHTS WERE ILLUMINATED. THERE WERE NO NOTAMS REGARDING RWY LIGHTING. ATIS; MACON FSS; AND SAV APCH GAVE NO INDICATION THAT RWY 27 WOULD NOT BE ILLUMINATED. RWY 36 AND RWY 18 WERE ILLUMINATED. SINCE RWY 9 AND RWY 27 IS THE LONGER OF THE 2 RWYS; IT WAS; IN MY OPINION; THE MORE FAVORABLE RWY. I ALSO FEEL BOTH RWYS SHOULD BE ILLUMINATED. AFTER CALLING FSS I FOUND IT TO BE LCL PROC TO ILLUMINATE ONE RWY AT A TIME. THIS INFO SHOULD BE DISSEMINATED; OR THE VASI SHOULD BE TURNED OFF WITH RWY 27 LIGHTING.