Are you Night Current ?

[mooney389]

Night current for work, but not in the Mooney.

[DrBill]

WOW, thanks to all for the replies, comments and poll activity.   Pretty interesting on the variation of responses.

Thanks

BILL

[Stefanovm]

I do in the early morning. This is not so bad as DST keeps sunup about the same. I takeoff from my 2,500 grass runway at our residetial airport,make the first and at least a second landing at a paved runway 6 miles away, I then do at least one, the last, at home. We do have lights, even a vasi that I rarely use. I always turn on our lights.

[DrBill]

Lights are good!  I had to land at our airport once without lights and it took 2 trys to line up right.  Then when I got to the end of the runway to turn around, the lights came on.

Murphy's Law.

 BILL

[Stefanovm]

Lights are good!  I had to land at our airport once without lights and it took 2 trys to line up right.  Then when I got to the end of the runway to turn around, the lights came on.

Murphy's Law.

 

That happened to me at Sierra Vista one night. However the lights never did come on. The good thing was I was on the ILS, its vmc, and there was plenty light from other than runway lights. Also the runway there is very long and wide.

[tomn]

I used to really enjoy flying at night. Now days I avoid flying at night if possible but will do it when needed. Loosing the engine changes your attitude about night flying. Riding above a low overcast is somewhat of the same situation but at least there would be a short period of time to pick a spot...

[RJBrown]

2.5 from Salt Lake (U42) to Cenntennial (APA) last night. Weather at Denver kept pushing back what was to be a daytime flight. 6:00 to 8:30 became 8:00 to 10:30. DEN was closed for lightning when I passed Kremmling. They started landing there about the time I started down. Picked up ATIS calling for RWY 35 then listened to a Baron land on 17. When I called in he gave me a straight in to 10. Only the second time I have landed on 10 in 20+ years. Pretty smooth flight given the light show further east. Here is last nights "Super Moon" rising over the Utah Colorado line.

[M016576]

Get up to about 10,000 ft at night over the FL coast. Turn radios and cabin lights down, put oxygen and A/P on, pull the power back......BLISS

10000 at night over (in) the Sierra's and Rockies doesn't have quite the same "blissful" effect.

Although, in the winter, if the moon is full, it can look an awful lot like daylight!

[aaronk25]

I love flying at night but analyze the route first and fly high so airport or at a minimum a major interstate is available for landing in event of engine out.

I will say that frequent checks for cylinder cracks, borescope inspection, cutting filters and oil analysis calms almost all concern I have about loosing a engine. I fly about 30-50hours a month and stay up on all maintenance and have great equipment, however if the engine quits at night this guy is gonna survive and walk away. Level flight just above stall speed into somewhat hostile terrain is survivable. 60kts isn't that fast considering were in a hell of a roll cage. As long as you don't go "IN" nose down.

[dcrogers11]

I love the night sky for boring holes, and up until a couple of medicals ago, my color blindness was not a huge issue.  But now, the doctors have said that my feet have to be on the ground 30 minutes after sundown until I take the time to get a waiver from the FAA by doing a light gun test as well as read a sectional chart for them.  Anyway, I didn't like the crazy sounds my brain thinks the plane makes at night so i've not really pursued the waiver.  

Don  

[N201MKTurbo]

I love the night sky for boring holes, and up until a couple of medicals ago, my color blindness was not a huge issue.  But now, the doctors have said that my feet have to be on the ground 30 minutes after sundown until I take the time to get a waiver from the FAA by doing a light gun test as well as read a sectional chart for them.  Anyway, I didn't like the crazy sounds my brain thinks the plane makes at night so i've not really pursued the waiver.  

Don  

 

I got my wavier as a student. I had a hard tome telling the white and green apart with the light gun, but so did the FAA man, so now I have a wavier. (so did the FAA Man)