"Blinking" Landing Lights

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"Blinking" Landing Lights

Postby 3WE » Mon Feb 01, 2016 2:37 am

Sometime last decade SWA/WN started putting blinking landing lights on their planes. I think V Nav V Dummy confirmed that a study showed increased visibility of the aircraft.

I still see an occasional biz jet with them, but no airliners at all whatsoever any more (as best as I can tell).

I'm guessing there was an incident or two at night and the lights stuck on flash when full-on would be preferred? (Or they burned out more or etc.)

Any insider insight on this from our DSGPOTM?
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Re: "Blinking" Landing Lights

Postby flyboy2548m » Mon Feb 01, 2016 10:41 pm

At my first airline we had a CRJ msn 7018 aka "Blinky". It was kinda cool.
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Re: "Blinking" Landing Lights

Postby 3WE » Tue Feb 02, 2016 2:59 am

At my first airline we had a CRJ msn 7018 aka "Blinky". It was kinda cool.
http://www.airfleets.net/ficheapp/plane-crj-7018.htm
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Re: "Blinking" Landing Lights

Postby flyboy2548m » Tue Feb 02, 2016 12:22 pm

That would be it.
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Re: "Blinking" Landing Lights

Postby PurduePilot » Sat Apr 09, 2016 5:19 am

Pulse lights are much more visible, especially in daytime. That said, they can be rather distracting when landing at night and you forgot to switch from pulsing to steady.

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Re: "Blinking" Landing Lights

Postby flyboy2548m » Sat Apr 09, 2016 4:51 pm

Pulse lights are much more visible, especially in daytime. That said, they can be rather distracting when landing at night and you forgot to switch from pulsing to steady.
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Re: "Blinking" Landing Lights

Postby PurduePilot » Sun Apr 10, 2016 8:28 pm

Pulse lights are much more visible, especially in daytime. That said, they can be rather distracting when landing at night and you forgot to switch from pulsing to steady.
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Don't know... definitely not an abundance of spare time... I think I wanted to see if anybody was still here. :P

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Re: "Blinking" Landing Lights

Postby flyboy2548m » Tue Apr 12, 2016 7:30 pm

Good to see you back.
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Re: "Blinking" Landing Lights

Postby PurduePilot » Thu Apr 14, 2016 3:44 am

You're here too.

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Re: "Blinking" Landing Lights

Postby flyboy2548m » Tue Apr 19, 2016 2:25 pm

Indeed
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Re: "Blinking" Landing Lights

Postby ocelot » Sat Apr 30, 2016 6:42 am

Nobody's actually here; these posts are actually generated by IBM's Watson.


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