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Having just crossed the border, and visited a few non-towered airports
in the US, I'm afraid I may have done some injustice by using the PCL
pilot controlled lighting a bit too much. Knowing the somewhat
precarious financial state of those airports, and the electricity hog
the lights can be, I'm wondering if its use is required at all. Can
the USA procedures experts here please comment on the following?

1. Any legal requirement to use them during the day (that is, any
FAR)? Is it an AIM recommended procedure?
2. Will 3 clicks ALWAYS turn off the REILs or approach lights?
Will 3 clicks sometimes turn off the runway lights, and if so, any way
to know this in advance?
3. Why not have an ability to turn them all off, runway lights
and approach/REILs?

Just trying to help save Uncle Sam some $

Stan



They turn themselves off based on a timer. I realized that the ones in
Immokale, FL stay on long enough to land, taxi back, take off, and come back
around to short final before they blink off.

I think there could be problems if they had a "click to turn off" feature.
Imagine the scenario where you "click off" as you pull into your parking
spot and shut down the airplane. Get out of the plane and see that they are
on, thinking that you forgot you reach back in, fire up the radio, and click
them off, not knowing that someone turned them back on behind you, and they
are now touching down as you turn the lights back off.