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For attitude, it's not your airplane's
attitude that matters as much as the one
between your ears. Pay greater attention
to your weather briefing. Night weather
is often tamer, but harder to see. You can't
stay clear of clouds if you can't see them.
If the weather is questionable on your
intended route, a flight that you might
safely navigate in daytime could prove
difficult after sunset. A greater degree of
go/no-go discipline is required for safe
VFR night flight.
EMERGENCIES AT NIGHT. Surely there's
nothing worse than sudden silence in a
dark airplane on a moonless night. You
can work an electrical failure with your
pair of flashlights, but an engine failure
requires a landing within gliding distance
(another reason to consider carrying some
extra altitude at night).
Selecting a good off-field spot for an
emergency landing at night is challenging

Where are you?
Light colors used on runways,
taxiways, and airport surfaces:
* Half yellow, half white. Edge lights
on instrument runways are yellow on
one side and white on the other for
the last 2,000 feet (or last half of the
runway, whichever is less).
* Half red, half green. At the end of a
runway, red facing departure, green
facing threshold for landing.
* Half blue, half red. On a taxiway
at the edge of a runway. Following
a trail of embedded green lights-
where are you? Right where you
should be.
* Embedded green lights mark the
center line of taxiways at larger
airports.

at best, but the key is the same as it is for
a day emergency landing: Keep your head
and fly the airplane all the way to the
ground. A controlled landing is always
more survivable than a stall or stall-spin.
UP WITH THE BATS AND THE OWLS.

Unlike Grahame-White, we no longer
need the headlamps of our friends to light
our fields; we have all manner of lights
to assist us. We have a few night-specific
regs for gear, fuel, currency, and visibility. We need to be aware of how our eyes
work at night. And we need to be rested
and we need to plan carefully, but the
night awaits.
And while it's not likely that flying at
night will win you a million bucks, flying
at night can sure make you feel like a million bucks.
William E. Dubois is an aviation writer who holds
a commercial ticket with instrument ratings.

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