Only captains taxi aircraft?

We light up everything but retractable lights below 18,000 feet. See and be seen!

Retractable lights are extended below 250 knots (too much rumble).

I wish we did. I rarely see guys use the Wing lights. We just hit the Landing lights out of 10 and the the Captain gets the Nose and Turnoffs when we're cleared to land.


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We have FOM guidance to light it all up below 180 and when crossing runways.

All seasons all times of the day.

Besides, direct light is easier to see than reflected. Light bulbs are cheap, loss of separation is ecologically unsound.
Now if we can only get guys to start using the logo lights again. Although the AMTs don't like it when you write them up INOP.
 
Now if we can only get guys to start using the logo lights again. Although the AMTs don't like it when you write them up INOP.
A pair of navs on an otherwise unlit area of the ramp are hard to pick out against background lights.
 
Lights are captain stuff on the Bro, since they're right over His (Her?) head. You can reach them easily unless you're short, but it's awkward.

You CAN taxi the Brasilia without nose wheel steering from the right seat, but until you get some practice it's a lurchy ride. Rudder pedal steering is more than adequate for high speeds though.

The -120 -145 are "backwards" (in the sense that everything that Boeing does is right, Embraer switches are "up for on" on the overhead on those airplanes).

Eagle had this story, possibly apocryphal, in which a flow back busted his type ride, thinking that the beacon was on (switch down = on in all right thinking airplanes, but the 145 is backwards because Embraer). DFDR INOP on the EICAS, advanced the TLs and his simulator stopped.


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We have FOM guidance to light it all up below 180 and when crossing runways.

All seasons all times of the day.

Besides, direct light is easier to see than reflected. Light bulbs are cheap, loss of separation is ecologically unsound.
Strobes don't do crap for making an airplane visible in day VFR. Or even day marginal VFR. Landing, recog, wing, etc lights are where it's at. Pulse lights are even better.
 
Kilometers? That Frenchiness rubbing off on you?

I'm numerically bilingual.

Hell, even that guy running from @MikeD on the border can speak KM and MI, why an educated first-world nation steadfastly holds on to a dead unit of measurement is beyond me! :)
 
TFaudree_ERAU said:
When you're taking off on a 5000' runway with a 4800' balanced field length...yes. Granted, I'm in the RJ's daddy, but whatever.

The RJ doesn't know who its daddy is, considering the number nuisance faults that pop up due to a poor upbringing and no father figure.
 
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