AviationBanter - View Single Post - Spinner strobing as a "Bird Strike Countermeasure"

**Mxsmanic** · December 4th 07, 04:28 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.aviation.homebuilt

writes:

Any light that flickers at an appropriate rate will cause the prop to
appear to turn in reverse.

The likelyhood of being somewhere with lights that flicker is irrelevant.

It's highly relevant in aviation, where exposure to flickering lights is
essentially unknown.

The original statement was that it -ONLY- happens in movies and video, and
that absolute statement is false as are most of MX's absolute statements.

The original assertion was that it was an artifact of human vision, which is
never true.