Originally Posted by Transition Layer
I know which one is making me more visible during the day, and it’s not the ones on the wing tips
I may be wrong but suspect Autralophthisiucuss (did I get that right??) may've been being facetious.
I use a different technique during daytime: I keep my eyes open and looking around and in 20,000 hours have never hit another airliner. At night I see beacons, nav lights, even passenger window lights and have never hit anyone. But seeing only a red beacon below a steady white light may lead the observer to think he's looking at the steady white
tail light of an older type. Thought was put into the design and location of aircraft lighting and introducing something random like this SOP works against it.