What lights should be used when on an airplane? NAV Lights, Strobe Lights, Rotating Beacon, ect.
Limiting scope to general aviation - Part 91 of FAR (14 CFR 91) - Day Night - Beacon Night - Beacon Nav (anticollision) lights Everything else is optional unless specified by the Operating Handbook/Limitations. For example, a Cirrus SR20 does not have a rotating beacon, thus it uses a strobe light instead.
Our nav lights go on when we start the apu. The rotating beacon comes on when we start engines. The strobes, landing lights and taxilights go on for every takeoff prior to entering the active runway. The taxilights go off when the gear comes up. The landing lights come off at ten thousand feet. The whole process is reversed on arrival. Day or night.
For a large commercial jet: NAV lights once the aircraft is supplying its own electrical power. Beacon light on right before engine start. Taxi light on for taxi, Landing and strobe lights on once you are cleared onto the active runway. Taxi lights off when gear up. Landing lights off after climbing past 18,000ft Landings lights on after descending under 18,000ft taxi lights on gear down. landing and strobe lights off when your off the active runway beacon off when the engines are off nav off when APU is off or whatever the airline likes to do, some airlines leave them on whenever there is activity in the plane of anyone in the cockpit etc..
What kind of airplane are you talking about? The requirements are different depending on the type.
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