Tony wrote:
I got shot down by a solar eclipse in Colorado; Knew it was going to
happen, didn't put one plus one together with respect to the effect on
solar heating. *Predictable and rare.

that brings up an interesting question, are position lights required
to fly during a solar eclipse?

That is question 3.c of "The Almost Useless Aviation Knowledge Test" he

http://gadoid.ices.cmu.edu/flying/thetest.html

(Link to the answers is at the very bottom of that page.)