Beacons/anticollision lights and engines

"Wade Hasbrouck" wrote in message
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"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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Can you say "run-on sentence"? Sure, I knew you could!

I never claimed to be a great writer... :-) I was computer science
major, not an english major... :-)
Sorry, could resist a posting a reply.


Anyway, your assumption is poorly placed.

I didn't say I practiced my assumption... :-) I guess it was more of a
hypothesis vs. an assumption. I don't know why if someone, if they had a
beacon on the tail, wouldn't turn it on once the engine it is started...
It almost seems like there are some people in this thread that are like
"Well, I have a beacon, but I am not turning it on, because I don't think
I have to." Commonsense says that it is a much safer world if you turn it
on just before turning the key, and leaving it on until you shut the
engine down, because after all, you won't get in trouble for turning that
thing on.

For the record, I turn on the rotating beacon, when I get to the item in
the check list that says "Master Switch on.", and turn it off during the
"Securing the airplane" checklist.


As has been beaten to death in this thread already, the FARs require that
anticollision lights be on while the aircraft is being operated.
Anticollision lights may take the form of a rotating beacon, strobes, or
other types of light meeting the requirements for an anticollision light

Agree this has been beaten to death.

Ire or not, if your strobes are the installed anticollision lights, then
they must be on while you are operating the aircraft.

Are there any planes that have only strobes? Not trying to make an
arguement, I am just curious, as almost every plane I have seen as the
beacon on the tail, haven't seen one that has just strobes. I admit
that it would sort of suck for other pilots if that is all you have, and
FARs are FAR, and if that is all you got, that is what you gotta use.


Mine only has strobes and that is not uncommon.