Originally Posted by
ARL120384
That's one thing I never understood. Why not deactivate them like AA? I use them as well as a lot of other people, but have never seen one burnt out. Although we're not supposed to use them, someone is fixing them.....
The first thing Mx does when they do overnight work is check the bulbs and replace the burned out ones. An American 80's tail was struck by a UA 777 in ORD a couple of years ago because the tail could not be seen. I like to be seen as much as possible when taxiing around at night. The company spends thousands of dollars on green vests to give pilots so they can be seen but they don't care about their multi million dollar aircraft.