Night over cities and roads is kind of nice. Night over big woods., water,
and dark swamp sucks. I've heard from others that deserts suck too. Every
time I'm over this terrain I turn on my landing lights every so often just
to see whats down there, and always turn-em back off right away cuz its
never pretty. I dont know why I keep turning the lights on, but its probably
like when someone says "here smell this, does this smell bad to you?" My way
of dealing with these trips is to climb up high enough that I can get
flight-following (as long as I dont wind up "on-top" to do it).


Bart

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I do not enjoy flying a helicopter at night very much - at least, out of
the pattern. It's too hard to see The Chosen Landing Spot in the event
of a problem.