wrote:
Dudley Henriques wrote:

If you do make that mistake, you will most likely either be dead or out of a job.


Thanks, mate.

Reports suggest that the plane hit a perimeter fence. Since that could
only have happened if the plane whacked into it on its takeoff roll not
having begun rotation, it's obvious that the pilots didn't sight it.
Makes me want to ask how effective landing lights are, normally? Are
they as good to pilots as car headlights are to drivers? My hunch is
they're not... since you don't expect traffic in your way in airplanes


Ramapriya

SOmeone else already addressed the rotation and I have no turbine
experience, but as for landing lights, They look really bright from
outside the plane at night, but they don't (at least on the small GA
planes I fly) light up much from in the cockpit. I would think that
CRJs would have better lighting, but I don't know.

My first night landing tempted me to ask for a good, bright, candle to
light the runway.

John Stevens
PP-ASEL