Flying Basics: Military & Commercial Aircraft External Lights
Flying Basics: Military & Commercial Aircraft External Lights
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The way I always remember red/green is that "Red" and "Left" both have fewer letters than "Green" and "Right".
"Totally mundane and boring", yet great information and I enjoyed it. Some of those random bits of knowledge that I enjoy. I’ll be watching the flashing lights more next time to see what aircraft they are.
*** I will ask the U.S. Department of Transportation if I can put Formation Strip Lights on my doors. 🙂
Hey Cap! Love the reapers’ tutorials. Recently got into DCS and you’ve helped like crazy. Feel like the F18 is a second skin now thanks to you.
Can you and the team do a tutorial on how to create and apply skins to the planes? Specifically the Hornet. Thanks!
Nice, can you please provide a link to this document? Thanks as always!
Cool one , always good to learn something new !
interesting video
now all that is missing is a toggle for switching AI planes lights on and off (they only have the on on the ground)
….. night time formation flying at the moment is impossible….which is a shame
I don’t know but I think I might be the one that suggested this topic a little back. Great info, just what I was looking for. After watching the video I had a lovely dusk to night flight, using the proper lighting settings for different parts of the flight, knowing I’m doing it the proper way. I hope other pilots follow these directions too since a lot seem to just use the lights they feel like or thinks look cool.
It’s just a pity that DCS doesn’t take into account light settings as far as I understand it. It makes no difference to the enemy whether you have lights on or off.
3 dimensional boats basically.
Wait, the Mirage doesn’t have the tail inspection/search light? I would have sworn that it does….in fact I’m sure I’ve used this before. Must go check DCS!
CF-18’s also have a searchlight under the canopy on the left side of the fuselage to identify aircraft alongside
One minor (very minor!) Point – navigation lights do not have to be fitted to the wingtip. They are strictly speaking required to be fitted to the widest non-moving part of the aircraft. For example – on helicopters or variable geometry wings the navigation lights can be fitted to the fuselage sides (though this is not always done on variable geometry aircraft – the Tornado had this (lights on the sides of the engine intakes), but the Tomcat used lights in the wing tips iirc)
Hey guys. Just a important note about Navigation Lights. You use then also as a reference to which aircraft have the preference when two aircrafts are about to cross paths. If another aircraft is about to cross your path, coming from your Right, he have the preference. If he is coming from your left, you have the preference. You can use the Nav lights to guide you. When the aircraft is crossing you path from your right, you will see the RED nav light on his wingtip. When coming from your left, the Green one.
When do you turn them off? I typically off/on and fence in / fence out
Waiting for video on operation swift retort. 27 fab 2019
+GrimReapersAtomic *United States military aircraft have several redundant lamps not used in the civil world.* Multiple position lights in specific positions (the USN-USMC/Grumman Iron Works F-14 Series had no fewer than five port, five starboard, and six stern lights) help personnel in night identification by type. Formation lights are cyan linear lamps in specific positions on the airframe. The anticollision light switch controls synchronized strobes on the fuselage top and bottom. The Air Force uses landing and taxi lights on the nosegear. The Navy and Marine Corps use a landing light and a three-lamp AOA indexer repeater (for the shipboard landing-signals officer) on the nosegear.
I know that on the mil model kits I have built, there’s a green light on the right wing tip and red on the left, also a red light on the vertical stabelizer.
I really love the Formation lights on military aircraft. How about you?
Lol, so a side note about nav lights. When I was in tech school, they told us Port (the fortified wine), is red, and there are four letters in the word port and left, so… that’s how you remember Port is red… and port is left… It seems confusing but every time we had a left hand nav light burnt out, that stupid saying would keep going through my head.
Also, about the beacons, not all of them rotate… Some do, but I’ve been on planes that use flashing LED’s for the anti collision. There’s just a LOT of them inside the unit.
One thing a lot of people don’t realize about the red/green position lights that the indicate right of way (ac/vessel on the right has the right of way). That is: if you (the observer) have the right of way, you will see a green light (go) as the other aircraft/vessel is coming from your left. When the other aircraft/vessel has the right of way, you will see a red light (stop) as it is on the right.
Hey Cap. Norwegian F-16s have a Floodlight on the left hand side of the nose to illuminate other aircraft during night interceptions for identification purposes.
Also – do you know how to force AI flights to use navlights (not only during takeoff/landings)?
yup
Great info.. but where can I find that document?
Hey Cap, I got something I’d like you to test. Early model AIM-9s had Rollerons on the fins for maneuverability (video of how it works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfzj3rRIVU4) meaning that as long is air is moving over it it can maneuver. What I’m wondering is if you can get a lock with an AIM-9 and then jettison the missile and have it glide to the target without igniting the rocket motor or launching it off the rails and if it would still track and (hopefully if it has enough energy) hit a target.
I dont understand. You read somebodies else written text, how is this content in any form?
Boeing 737-100 to 500 have landing lights in the flap track fairings and wing roots. Boeing 737-600 and latter have the land under the wing to body fairings and the wing root.
I’m sorry sir, but I work at an airport. If a pilot taxied in his/her aircraft with the taxi-lights or landing lights on, we’d walk away or hold the aircraft as those lights are bright enough to blind the marshallers to what’s going on when the aircraft is moving onto/off the gate. As for the white strobe lighting, those were put in place after a series of near misses in the early days of aviation as pilots were confusing approaching aircraft with stars. Other than that, I love your videos, keep up the great work fellas.