Aircraft Lighting whilest Taxing
Just curious as to the external lighting policies of various airlines whilest taxiing at night.
Are Logo lights thats are blown, fixed at the end of each days fling or often held over till when ever. Many airports around oz are turned into construction sites at night, mostly for the new Airbus works, so there are huges amounts of trucks, diggers etc etc descending on the airport. recently I have noticed more and more aircraft with unlit tails.
With the mariad of works lights, orange beacons on cars trucks, plant and equipment, a/c strobes, landing lights, tower beacons and god knows what else, an aircraft taxxing in front of, especially at right angles to you, if it has the cabin lights dimmed, and no logo lights can litterly dissapear in front of you in all the light clutter.
747's are the easiest to see with landing lights on as they light up the sde of the foward fuselage. same with older 73's.
Ice lights are really good too, as is a row of bright cabin lights.
YSSY from about 9pm till curfew gets real busy with works equipment, from 10:30 pm particularly so.
Keep a good lookout and get every external light you have on.