Hi Paul,
When I used to teach night flying, what I would show students concerning the landing light (very poor lighting at best on a C152/172) is that on very short final, the beam would illuminate the touchdown zone but when flaring, that beam would shoot most of its light in the distance and at that time, the focus should be on looking in the distance for the runway edge and end lights.
And even on a tricycle gear, if you hold the flare long enough, you're lighting the sky unless you have a dedicated beam aiming downwards. But you won't (shoudn't) be looking there in the flare...
In fact, for training and demonstration, I made sure that a least one night landing was made without aircraft landing lights to simulate a failure.
No big difference once in the flare...
Night landings are more often greasers mainly because of much quieter air.
I love night flying for that !!!
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Eric,
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