Logo Lights????

[I.P. Freley]

Vanity....thats it.

Vanity? How about "advertising"?

 

[Mach.75]

Actually, logo lights are a good safety tool for taking and crossing runways. A spill of white light on that big vertical stab makes an aircraft more easily seen vs. the red and green and white position lights (which don't exactly stand out on a runway with green taxi, red terminating bars and white centerline lights; not to mention strobes look a lot like REILs)

They can also help a controller identify who to contact if somebody happens to accidentally stroll onto the RW when told to hold short. Those precious seconds that it takes them to figure out who's screwing up could become someones last.

 

[U-I pilot]

UPS had logo lights. Now disabled....at least for the DC8, they are disabled....saves cost too....how much ya think one of them bulbs costs?

 

[T-Gates]

Vanity? How about "advertising"?

True...

 

[Jeff Helgeson]

Safety and advertising

I always thought it was a good idea to have logo lights, especially when taxiing around at night with other aircraft.

TWA had them on their aircraft and the American pilots had requested to have them istalled on the AA aircraft, but management disabled the logo lights all together.

In tough financial times, I guess it is a thing of the past.

 

[atrdriver]

One must wonder if KAL 007 had logo lights on what might have happened differently.

Typhoonpilot

Watching a piece on The History Channel the other day and it said that the fighter pilot had the plane visually, and told his controllers that it was a passenger 747, and his ground controllers told him to shoot anyway. If true, LOGO lights probably wouldn't have helped.

 

[DAS at 10/250]

how much ya think one of them bulbs costs?

Wingtip landing light (recog light) on a Navajo is $80

 

[CaSyndrm]

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