Light Up for Safety. A nice little jingle. (AIC H9/03).
Read in Aviation Week the other day that landing lights on are a magnet for infra red shoulder launched missiles. I can just see this bearded rag-head in a field listening to Arrivals on his Tandy radio and sees a huge pair of landing lights appear at 10 DME. His throw-away IR launcher lines up on those lovely safe lights and at one DME he presses the trigger. Light up for safety? Not in Iraq anyway...
It would never happen in Australia, would it?
Nah! No way, Hosay. Hey! Wait a minute. Have a read of AIC H9/02 (if it's still current). The title is "Possible Terrorist Activity Involving General Aviation Aircraft" This is Australia!
Sigh of relief - it only refers to GA aircraft - not RPT....