"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:xTTTf.41344$oL.25009@attbi_s71...
I certainly wouldn't recommend "recognition lights" as a replacement.
Navigation lights tell you only that an airplane is near and what
direction it's headed.

I have always found it difficult-to-impossible to determine an aircraft's
direction of flight by viewing those itty-bitty green and red lights. In
night flight, if you're even seeing another aircraft's nav lights, you're
way too close, IMHO.

Come out to the clear and dry air in the moutain west; you can see them for
ten miles.
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Matt
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Matthew W. Barrow
Site-Fill Homes, LLC.
Montrose, CO