Larry wrote:
I once landed at an unlit airport at night without benefit of landing
light. I just set up a 500'/minute descent and let it find the
runway. Worked fine.

Last year I had a complete electrical failure in the (towered) pattern at
night with a student. I'll leave out all the details, but we didn't have
lights, flaps (172), radios; there were other aircraft in the pattern.

Anyway, I set up a glassy water landing and it worked like a charm. And
they said a seaplane rating wasn't useful!

Hilton