Lights off approaching stand
I'm much puzzled by the almost fanatical insistance most, if not all, Captains have for switching all forward facing white lights off approaching stand. Why?
It seems that most think these may cause "discomfort" or " dazzling" to the groundcrew, which seems rather far-fetched to me. After all, we can hardly see anything in our landing or taxi lights as they are so dim, far weaker than most car headlights. I accept that a noseleg mounted taxi light might dazzle, but wing mounted lights? Surely not!
I thought that those white lights were an indication to everyone that an aircraft was moving, and were not switched off until it stops (military). Never noticed the ground crew bothering to switch off the full beam lights on their vans that so frequently point at us as we taxi on stand. Whats the difference?
Are we being too sensitive?