Logo Lights????

[slaabpilot]

Can anyone tell me where it says that LOGO LIGHTS are required on 121 aircraft??????


Thanks.

 

[T-Gates]

Can anyone tell me where it says that LOGO LIGHTS are required on 121 aircraft??????


Thanks.

Absolutely nowhere....cause they aren't

 

[slaabpilot]

Why are they even installed if Logo lights are not required???

 

[T-Gates]

Vanity....thats it.

 

[firstthird]

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)

Maybe they don't help all that much, but any little bit that might avoid two planes trying to occupy the same space at the same time is a good thing (to quote our favorite jailed homemaking maven)

Now, whether or not the designers put them on planes as a vanity light only or as a safety measure, couldn't tell you.

 

[mmmdonut]

Why are they even installed if Logo lights are not required???

Is the coffee maker required?

How about the DirecTV?

Or the sanitary napkins in the lav?

 

[typhoonpilot]

Why are they even installed if Logo lights are not required???

My company requires them to be turned on at night in flight. The reason being that we fly all over the world and often times very close to war zones or disputed borders. If we are ever intercepted, the interceptor will be able to see very clearly who we are and that we pose no threat. One must wonder if KAL 007 had logo lights on what might have happened differently.

Typhoonpilot

 

[Guitar Guy]

Might have some of the 121 guys and gals around here check their company's MEL for this one.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

ASA recently had all of their logo lights disabled.

 

[flx757]

Might have some of the 121 guys and gals around here check their company's MEL for this one.

My company's MEL for the aircraft I am assigned to (MD-80) says:

MEL 33-23 Tail Illumination Lights (Logo)
Qty Installed--2
Qty Required--0
Category--D
Flight Crew Placarding--Yes
Remarks and Exceptions--May be inoperative.
Placarding--Adjacent to affected light switch.

 

[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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