Night Vision

Bob,

while we're at it, maybe a question from a friend: Consider a flight in
night IMC. Why would there be any desire to keep the night vision good?
There's nothing to see outside anyway, except for bright runway lights.
Why not make the cockpit as bright as possible?

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

Consider a flight in
night IMC. Why would there be any
desire to keep the night vision good?
There's nothing to see outside anyway


Until you break out unexpectedly. There's aluminum out there and it's not
separated from you once you are out of the soup. Without good night vision you
might not even notice you're now in 5 miles in haze over a layer.

Jose

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Teacherjh,

Thanks, that's what I said, too: You'll still need to visually scan for
traffic if it's anywhere near marginal VMC. And that's often the case.

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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)