Landing Lights
Just wanted to gather some opinions on the use of landing lights.
Where I'm learning, different instuctors seem to have different opinions on when/whether to use the landing light.
One instructor likes it switched on entering the runway for departure, but not to bother with it any other time. Another instructor doesn't bother with it at all! At the weekend in my lesson we called finals, and I asked 'landing light on?', the response to which was an almost indignant 'no, dont bother'.
To me, this seems a little odd. If I'm about to enter the runway, I'd find it much easier to spot an aircraft on finals with the landing light on, than with it off. See and be seen and all that - after all, it is only one extra switch, hardly a massive increase in workload!
What do you think?