Leave it out
I reckon you should leav that light off once you've climbed up. Leave the upper red strobe on and the nav lights on for conspciuity (more than enough) and use the landing light for the purpose intended, seeing where you are going close to the ground (200ft and below). The lower strobe stays off to stop distracting reflections. You don't then end up blinding someone as you fly around and you don't have the backscatter problems. Just remember that as someone has already mentioned, if you're IFR (which you probaly will be at night) you really don't need the OTT conspicuity. You don't see airliners with them on! Or you could just get yourself some night vision gear and turn the whole lot off!
And when you read the next post, please read back to the next line here.
These are the f%^&ing rules!!! Used as taught!!!
Last edited by GipsyMagpie; 5th March 2006 at 17:08.