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Old 29th Apr 2017, 16:29
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ACW599
 
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I teach that the landing light, strobes and nav lights go on immediately prior to entering the runway for take-off. They stay on in the interests of conspicuity for the entire sortie and are switched off as part of the after-landing checks.

If I remember correctly we did this on the VGS Vigilants on the back of an RAF study some years ago that leaving the LL on reduced the risk of birdstrike by a significant percentage. Presumably every little increase in conspicuity helps, and LED landing-lamp bulbs last a lot longer than incandescents.
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