"Kingfish" wrote in message
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On Oct 23, 10:13 am, "Marco Leon" wrote:

50 miles? Why so far out? I normally put the lights on at initial
tower callup. (8-10nm)

Because of the location of FRG. To the north, there's quite a bit of traffic
zig-zagging across the Long Island Sound. The a bit more north, you have
Bridgeport and New Haven traffic. To the west and south west, you have the
Class B and I always keep the landing light on there because I'm constantly
getting called as traffic for the airliners. To the east, you have the
Islip, Brookhaven, and East Hampton traffic. East hampton might be a bit far
for the landing light but my [relatively] close call came over the VOR there
so it's a personal procedure

Long Island in general is busy. I probably can do without it directly north
and south but whenever I come close to the CT shoreline and the NJ Class B
edge, I generally put it on.

Marco