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JohnRevere

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hello,
I was wondering, when your crusing and climbing and all that do you have on your nav,becan and strobe lights on? i noticed in a flightdeck picture that they had the lights off for the cockpit do you turn those off when crusing
 
If you're talking about the exterior light configuration during climbout or the interior cockpit light configuration during flight.
 
Dude, everytime I see your name, I think Guys and Dolls....

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Dude, everytime I see your name, I think Guys and Dolls....



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I think Paul Revere..
 
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I think Paul Revere..

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...suposivly....

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Interesting. I've heard people pronounce it that way, but never seen it spelled that way before.
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Interesting. I've heard people pronounce it that way, but never seen it spelled that way before.

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<-----Thinking the same exact thing.
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Dude, everytime I see your name, I think Guys and Dolls....

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[/ QUOTE ]yes.. it's all about the song... all about the song... how's it go again MTSU?
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Doug im talking about both, and suposivly i am related to paul revere but i dont know who knows

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You know, to tell you the truth, I really don't know!

At least in the MD-88, it's kind of second nature. but the only controls I have from my seat, apart from cockpit lighting, are the strobes, anti collision lights and the nacelle lights. The strobe switch always stays on because they're automagic, the wing/nacelles come on from the takeoff roll up to FL180 and the anti-collision light stays on as long as the engine is running.
 
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Interesting. I've heard people pronounce it that way, but never seen it spelled that way before.
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Suposivly...... suposivly.......

Did they go to the zoo? Suposivly.
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Name that quote!
 
Only light I turn on and off is the landing light. I'm flying a slow, small plane and everything I can do to make it more visible is a good thing.
 
My company has the Nav lights on anytime the aircraft is powered. It's a great indication of whether or not you left the battery switches on.

The beacon comes on for engine start and stays on until the props stop spinning.

The strobes come on as you're cleared onto the runway and stay on until after landing.

The landing lights also come on as we are cleared for takeoff and stay on through 5000'. The come back on as we descend through 5000'. The ops manual says they can come at 10,000' in high density areas, but you save bulb life if you wait until 5,000'. It's up to the Captain, though.

The taxi light is used for taxi and is turned off on the after takeoff flow and turned back on again to indicate we're cleared to land.

If the plane is equipped with Logo lights. They come on in the dark, just because Logo Lights are cool.

As far as interior lights, we use the dome light on the ground when it's dark out. That normally comes off for taxi. We also have lights underneath the glareshield. We rarely use those. We only turn them on because they don't dim so much during engine start and they help light up the ITT gauge. We also have map lights overhead and on the yoke. Most captains I fly with like to keep the cockpit fairly dim at night. It really helps to see things.
 
We have very few external and internal lights. On the left throttle outboard, there's a kill switch for all externals.

Stateside, I fly with the red ventral rotating beacon on. You can't see the position lights because they're so dim, and recessed into the top/bottom of the wingtip, and also covered with a light film of RAM, which tints them.

Inside the cockpit, all lights off for night post-takeoff; CMDI/MFDs to their lowest dimmed setting so they're barely perceptible, and just a small finger light to peruse the map and target photos with from IP to target. Oddly enough, even the smallest white light in the cockpit can be picked up by an enemy pilot with NVGs from a respectable distance.
 
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