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Where to aim landing lights?
- Thread starter Bevan
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My opinion:
In my -10 I set both lights to optimize lighting when taxiing. I have been to enough airports with unlit taxiways - and the stock lighting is so marginal - that I need lights to avoid running off the taxiiway, or into parked cars or even airplanes. OTOH I do not fly into unlit runways at night, in which case lights are not needed and, due to their limited range, sometimes make for poor landings.
ymmv
In my -10 I set both lights to optimize lighting when taxiing. I have been to enough airports with unlit taxiways - and the stock lighting is so marginal - that I need lights to avoid running off the taxiiway, or into parked cars or even airplanes. OTOH I do not fly into unlit runways at night, in which case lights are not needed and, due to their limited range, sometimes make for poor landings.
ymmv
ExtraKatana
Well Known Member
ON my 6A, I had one pointed slightly low for taxiing and the other to illuminate the runway enough to be comfortable just before the flare. I wanted to make sure there was not a deer etc within the next 75 Yds or so.
