On Oct 23, 9:48 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. ....... Easthampton 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.


The few times I've flown into FRG the traffic was fairly light, but
not being familiar with the landmarks given by the tower was a bit
confusing. I fly out of Bridgeport and Danbury, (sometimes Oxford) and
am usually going to Montauk when heading out that way, it's normally
pretty quiet on that end of L.I. I'll never figure out why HTO and
MTP have the same CTAF - they're 16nm apart and that makes for one
busy freq during summer...