Agreed; good old fashioned airmanship and courtesy seem to be a lost art these days.
Folks running around with every possible exterior light on. I find taxi with wing lights on most annoying as they have a tendency to shine right in my face at a 90 degree angle to them. (This seem to be a SOP with most Turkish aircraft)
Of course those will say see and be seen, but in fact the best light to be seen, is your tail/logo lights.
Always thought this was a good cockpit story; the story goes that back in the 60's Hugh Hefner used a DeVore developed Tel-Tail vertical tail floodlight that was aimed at the tail of the all black Playboy DC-9 in order to illuminate the Playboy Bunny. Since then manufactures and companies have widely used the tail light to advertise their wares.
During the days of stalled contract negotiations we used to turn the logo light off as a show of solidarity.
Last edited by jimmyg; 20th September 2012 at 06:16.