Originally Posted by
WHBM
There were a number of aircraft around in the dark, which makes repeated unqualified reference just to "the CRJ" quite liable to error. I still wonder if the "Can you see the CRJ ... pass behind the CRJ" was being interpreted as the aircraft on the ground lining up on 01, the nearest aircraft to them and just on their right. They could see it, and they turned to pass behind it.
I have been asked to blink my landing lights and asked others too. Otherwise a C-172 about to hit me, a C-5 a long way off, and Venus are all about the same. Helicopters with the running lights about 6 feet apart are the worst, they end up looking like an airplane a lot further away.