If by having my driving/dipped headlights on all the time means I'm a poser then I'm a helicopter poser as well.
I believe it is far the most important thing to use every aid available to increase the chance of being seen.
I like so many of you will put on the landing lights if there are reported to be others nearby which I havent seen. I know that any pilot looking into the sun will have difficulty seeing a northbound aircraft, so on go the front landing lights.
What I was really asking was:-
1. Do you agree that white stobes are the most effective warning light?
2. Do you agree that white strobe lights used in dispersals would damage the eyesight of marshallers and engineers and that a switchable strobe to 'red' would be an adequate warning light?
3. Do you agree that nav lights are useless during the day and of only of benefit at night, in flight and for marking parked helicopters?
4. Do you agree that landing lights should be used at pilots discretion, but when approaching landing sites/airports should be used to aid other aircraft and air traffic controlles.
5. Do you agree that red rotating beacons/ anti col lights are ineffective during daylight?
Thank you.