Originally Posted by
IA1125
An Israeli aircraft I flew did not have separate switches for the beacon and the strobes, it was either all or nothing and no beacon is not an option.
We caught a lot of grief taxiing around with our strobes on and felt like jerks the whole time. Hopefully Gulfstream fixed that problem when they bought the aircraft type.
A 172 I fly has the strobes tied into the beacon switch. It even has a placard that says do not operate the strobes in the vicinity of other aircraft...lol
I've always wondered if someone would taxi around with the beacon off because of the strobes.