NIGHT FLYING The technique of night flying is closely related to instrument flying. A few suggestions: 1. Know the location of your controls, instruments and switches. 2. Always carry a flashlight. 3. Be super-careful when taxiing. Use your landing light intermittently except in extremely congested areas. Never use your landing light for more than 10 seconds at one time. 4. Use side spotlights for reading maps and charts. 5. Check all cockpit lights before leaving the line. 6. Make an accurate check on your flight instruments. 7. Keep the cockpit lights dim to avoid losing the horizon. 8. On an especially dark night you may have trouble finding, the horizon. Turn on all. gyro flight instruments and check them frequently 9. Do absolutely no acrobatics. 10. Know the location of emergency landing fields in the area over which you are flying. NIGHT TAKEOFF The things you have to remember when taking off at night are these: 1. Be sure your running lights are on before starting the engine.

2. If you use your landing light for taxing, remember to retract it before starting the takeoff, or immediately after takeoff. 3. Keep all your cockpit lights turned low. 4. When taking off, pick a point on the horizon in front of you and hold to that point so that you can take off on a straight course. NIGHT LANDING 1. All your cockpit lights should be dim. 2. You are safer landing wheels first than 3-point because of reduced visibility and your own tendency to level off high at night. 3. Whether you land with your landing light on or off is up to you. Some pilots always use their landing lights; others say that having the light on causes a glare on the runway. If you plan to use the landing light, extend it after your last turn into the field. Do not extend the landing light when you are flying over 140 mph. The landing light should not be used when there is fog on the ground because: Glare and blindness may result. Depth perception is distorted. You may mistake the top of the fog for the ground.